Day 3 - Pragmatic Works Webinar Series
Hey Guys and Gals ! If you missed the webinars today, you missed a great show! Brian took us through the...
2010-02-24
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Developing Your DBA Skills Further Thanks to Experience with Multiple RDBMS
Any DBA who really understands databases and SQL standards can make out with other RDBMSs quite well, and if they...
2010-02-24
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Managing user data and response through 'drop boxes'
There are a few ways to get data from a client to your system; FTP or email. Internally we tend...
2010-02-24
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Plan for Failure
Notice I didn't title this "Plan to Fail." We should never plan to fail. That's sabotage. And that ain't right,...
2010-02-24
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Upcoming SQL Lunch Webinars
If you haven’t attended a SQLLunch, I suggest that you put this upcoming lunch on your schedule. Brad McGehee, SQL...
2010-02-24
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Featured Blog: Aloha DBA
If you’ve been around SQL for any length of time it’s hard not to have heard of Brad McGehee, the...
2010-02-24
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Disaster Recovery at SQLServerCentral
We had a spammer post a bunch of random, silly posts last week. I knew it was an issue when...
2010-02-24
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Adventures in Webinar Presentations
Over the past several years, I have given 2-3 live web presentations a year, and I have always found them...
2010-02-23
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Find Ultimate Parent at any Level From Any Level
Recently I got a forum question that I thought would be a good blog entry for others to share.
The question...
2010-02-23
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Gets a Real Date
Hot Off The Presses !
This isn’t like when you stood in line at the kissing booth in high school. SQL...
2010-02-23
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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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