Powershell and Policy Based Management
If you haven’t looked at Policy Based Management (PBM), and you manage multiple instances, you ought to really look at...
2010-11-03
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PASS Update #46 (What Should PASS Be?)
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while, and I haven’t because I felt that I just didn’t quite...
2010-11-03
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More PASS Summit Tips For First Timers
Yesterday I posted my tips for PASS Summit First Timers, and of course as soon as I did I remembered...
2010-11-03
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VLDB Issues at SQL Server Connections
Kim Tripp is a great speaker, with a wealth of knowledge. This session was talking about some of the issues...
2010-11-03
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A Couple of SQL Lunches this Week
I want to apologize for posting this so late, but there is a SQL Lunch today and one tomorrow. Hope...
2010-11-03
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PASS Update #45 (Agenda for SQLSaturday Roundtable)
If you’re attending the 2010 Summit and are interested in helping improve SQLSaturday, I hope you’ll register and attend our...
2010-11-03
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Kilt Day
A week from now will be Kilt Day at the PASS Summit. It’s probably way too late to order a...
2010-11-03
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Service Broker – SQL Server Connections
These are some notes and thoughts from sessions and my time at SQL Server Connections/DevConnections in Nov 2010.
Denny Cherry gives...
2010-11-03
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PARTITION BY clause works incorrectly when in nested select over large volumes of data
I have been witnessing a very strange behaviour of ROW_NUMBER() PARTITION BY clause in complex join and nested select or...
2010-11-03
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My PASS Summit Schedule
Several bloggers have posted what their plans are for the PASS Summit and I’m following suit for 2 reasons:
So people...
2010-11-03
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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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