IT Camp Saturday
The first ever IT Camp is being held in Tampa on March 19, 2011, organized by cool Tampa guy Chad...
2011-03-07
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SQLAndy
Leading Wildcards Aren’t A Good Default
SQL Server has LIKE, which lets us do various pattern matches, but most commonly we use the percent side as...
2011-03-05
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Presenting in West Palm Beach on March 22, 2011
I’m pleased to be joining the West Palm Beach .Net group on March 22 to do a presentation on SQL...
2011-03-04
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The Power And Pain of Process–Part 1
Part of why I love IT is finding patterns and creating new ones. Patterns by themselves are interesting, but when...
2011-03-04
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Firefox and NTLM Authentication
By default Firefox doesn’t pass through NT credentials, not a big deal when you’re browsing Amazon by a big pain...
2011-03-01
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JTDS & Grails
Recently I had the chance to do some tuning on a system that was built using Grails (formerly Groovy on...
2011-02-28
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PASS Update #53 (Bylaws)
This week we posted some pending changes to the PASS bylaws. We try to do a review at least once...
2011-02-25
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A Plug for Wirefly
Wirefly is a website devoted to purchasing cell phones and plans. I found it when I was researching my Droid...
2011-02-22
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What Should PASS Be? I Challenge You
PASS isn’t what it should be. I hear that a lot, and in many ways I agree with you. We’re...
2011-02-18
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Notes from the February 2011 MagicPASS Meeting
I attended the second meeting of MagicPASS (no web site yet) on Feb 16 at Stetson University in Celebration, FL....
2011-02-18
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Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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