The Web 3.0 has finally arrived… It’s The Cloud
The 2008 trending topic everyone was talking about was the Web 2.0. On October 23 that same year, Amazon EC2 dropped the Beta label and the story accelerated: Less...
2010-04-02
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Winner of the March SQL Aloha Contest
The March SQL Aloha contest had a total of 25 entries, and all of them were great responses to this...
2010-04-02
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What happens when Windows is the step-child? Adventures in Ruby on Rails.
Like many of you I’ve heard the developer community going on about Rails for quite a while now. It wasn’t...
2010-04-02
1,464 reads
Speaking Seven Times in April
April will be a busy month for me as I will be speaking seven different times, on seven different topics,...
2010-04-02
446 reads
The Best vs. The Good Enough
When you ask a question on the forums, you'll often get responses that certain ways of doing things are inefficient...
2010-04-02
450 reads
The Way - The Reason
This is one thing outside the SQL World, but it has very strong place in every aspects, it is one...
2010-04-02
616 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 2
The DMV for Day 2 is sys.dm_exec_sessions, which is described by BOL as:
Returns one row per authenticated session on SQL...
2010-04-02
415 reads
Book Review: Where Have All The Leaders Gone
It had been a long while since I listened to an audio book, found it while browsing at the library....
2010-04-02
379 reads
Goals for 2010 – Q1 Review
Here were the goals I posted for 2010 on the last day of December:
Continue managing the forums, but at a...
2010-04-02
498 reads
Getting Scared
This is not a technical post, it’s personal, but I need to express my fears. It isn’t about our economy,...
2010-04-01
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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