June S3OLV Wrapup
Last night we had our monthly Chapter User group meeting in affiliation with PASS. Honestly, the experience was quite humbling...
2010-06-11
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SQL RNNR
Data Compression
We have come to that time of month again – blog party. This time, the party is hosted by Jorge Segarra...
2010-06-08
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June 2010 S3OLV Meeting
The S3OLV monthly meeting is being held this Thursday. We will be meeting at the same location and time as...
2010-06-07
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Defensive Database Programming Chapter 01
Today I am finally getting around to the review of the first chapter as promised. I talked about the book...
2010-06-07
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DTS and 2008
Have you ever been required to update your SQL Server environment and needed to test it? I know, rhetorical question....
2010-06-04
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Space Used
At long last I am bringing the next installment in this mini-series. You can find the rest of the articles...
2010-05-25
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Content Copy Followup
Last week I posted an article about plagiarism. This is a follow-up to that. After posting that blog article, Steiner...
2010-05-24
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SQL Book Review
Recently I received a new opportunity via email. Steve Jones at SQLServerCentral sent me an email to see if I...
2010-05-21
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Plagiarized or Copied
Today I ran into an interesting website. While I was trying to locate information concerning a SQL Saturday event, I...
2010-05-20
717 reads
Plagiarized
Today I ran into an interesting website. While I was trying to locate information concerning a SQL Saturday event, I...
2010-05-20
538 reads
Blogs
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...
SQL Server Security Hardening Guide Using the DoD STIG Checklist
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!
It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00...
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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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