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With the Vancouver games underway, I have been reflecting on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.  Those were the greatest winter...

2010-02-18

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DBA.Sleep(8hrs)

I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night.  Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...

2010-02-17

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In Vs. Inner Join

This is tightly related to another of my forays into tuning some slowly/poorly performing processes.  This process came across my...

2010-02-16

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PayPeriod II

I recently blogged about a solution I had decided to use in order to solve a problem related to PayPeriod...

2010-02-14

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Relationships

This month Rob Farley is hosting TSQL-Tuesday #3.  The topic is Relationships and he has left it wide open for...

2010-02-09

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Key Discovery III

Recursively traverse system views to build a Hierarchical Perspective into the database.
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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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