November S3OLV Recap
Last Thursday we had the monthly meeting for our local PASS chapter. I would normally try to get the recap out a bit sooner. This month, I intentionally delayed...
2010-11-09
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November S3OLV Recap
Last Thursday we had the monthly meeting for our local PASS chapter. I would normally try to get the recap...
2010-11-09
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PASS Summit: Day 1 Keynote, Part 3
Ted Kummert is still talking.
For the cloud, of course, they’re talking about SQL Azure. Microsoft really is throwing themselves into...
2010-11-09
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PASS Summit: Day 1 Keynote, Part 2
Mark Souza from the SQL CAT Team, some of the smartest & most capable of MS consultants in SQL Server, is...
2010-11-09
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PASS Summit: Day 1 Keynote, Part 1
Sitting at the big kids table at the PASS Summit, ready to rock and roll. The Summit has not officially...
2010-11-09
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SQLPASS Day 1: Keynote Live Blog
Day 1 Keynote Jumps the Shark with Tina Turner Impersonator
I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:38 local time.
You wouldn’t guess...
2010-11-09
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Finding CPU Pressure - dm_os_schedulers DMV
The last post dealt with checking CPU pressure using wait_stats DMV. But, to get a complete picture of CPU Pressure,...
2010-11-09
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PASS Summit 2010-Monday
I’m writing this on Tuesday morning, Monday was a blur. I awoke at 4 am, finally decided that sleep wasn’t...
2010-11-09
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PASS Summit 2010–Sunday
My day started at 5:15 to get moving for the airport. Arrived right at 2 hours early to find that...
2010-11-09
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Join Me This Week At PASS
This week at the PASS Community Summit in Seattle, I’m delivering two full length sessions, one lightening session, and chairing...
2010-11-09
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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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