Why Am I Amazed By a 2000 Page Word Doc?
It’s not uncommon to have information shared in a Word doc, but I was surprised recently to open one up...
2011-12-16
716 reads
SQLAndy
Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 2
Yesterday I shared the small adventure of buying a refurbished laptop. While I was at Compusa looking at laptops I...
2011-12-15
861 reads
Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 1
A couple months back the laptop my wife uses was fading away, the internal power connector was broken/barely working and...
2011-12-14
640 reads
Notes from the MagicPASS Holiday Party
I haven’t been to a MagicPASS meeting in a while, so it was nice to reconnect with the group at...
2011-12-14
729 reads
The Shredder Challenge
The Shredder Challenge was a contest sponsored by DARPA to find ways of putting shredded documents back together. Take a...
2011-12-13
848 reads
Presenting at IT Pro Camp in January 2012
My first outing of the new year will be at the IT Pro Camp here in Orlando, working on some...
2011-12-12
646 reads
More Culture-The Failure Wall
Ran across this during my daily reading, a post by Jeff Stibel on Why I Hire People That Fail. The...
2011-12-12
780 reads
My Recipe for Chocolate Pie
One of our small holiday traditions is that we bake at least one home made dessert. Hard to beat the...
2011-12-09
648 reads
Book Review: Sixkill
Sixkill is the 39th Spencer novel, and the last that was written by Robert Parker before his death. The plot...
2011-12-08
643 reads
First Thoughts on the Kindle Fire
My perception of the tablet market has been that the iPad is king, but at a kingly price. If I...
2011-12-07
799 reads
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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