Windows Azure Platform One Month Pass
According to all of their public pronouncements and the flurry of recent activity, Microsoft seems extremely serious about Windows Azure...
2010-08-06
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SQL Saturday #28 Update
We are just about a week away from probably the biggest FREE training event to ever take place in Baton...
2010-08-06
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Inconsistent NullIF Behaviour ?
NullIf can be a very handy function sometimes. For those who have not used it, if the result of the...
2010-08-06
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Planning for Maintenance
On Monday, Microsoft released an out-of-band security patch to address the .LNK vulnerability. This affects Windows XP, including Windows XP...
2010-08-06
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The Inteview is Done
I completed my interview for the PASS board election today. I don’t want to talk about what was in the...
2010-08-06
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 9, 2010
Monday
SQL Lunch - SSIS Design Patterns 1a: Introduction to SSIS Design Patterns - Andy Leonard
Tuesday
PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter - Where the bl**dy...
2010-08-06
1,221 reads
eReaders - Kindle v Nook v iPad
A friend of my wife’s posted a note asking what people thought of the various devices and which one would...
2010-08-06
1,198 reads
Simple Script to Determine Who To Kill (SPIDs)
I'm mostly working now supporting the building of SSIS packages for ETL. And on one particular project we've been making heavy...
2010-08-06
756 reads
Tiny Homes
Over the course of my life I’ve lived in a few different places; small home, apartment, pup tent, large tent,...
2010-08-06
535 reads
Hands Off System Databases
I saw a post earlier this week from Buck Woody called Don’t Mess with the System Databases and I agree....
2010-08-06
354 reads
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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