PASS Summit, Birds of a Feather Lunch, and Ask the Experts
The PASS Summit is just around the corner, less than a month away. Although I’m not presenting a session at...
2010-10-19
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Going to the PASS Summit? Learn to Network Too!
My friend Don Gabor is back at the Summit this year presenting a two hour seminar on Networking to Build...
2010-10-19
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Database Mirroring Connection Strings - Automatic Failover
I saw a post recently from Hugo Shebbeare that reminded me of something that I’ve seen asked often on the...
2010-10-19
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SQL Saturday #49 report
This past Saturday, I spent the day at SQL Saturday #49 in sunny Orlando. Since Orlando is way out of...
2010-10-18
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Notes from SQLSaturday #49
We headed into the SQLSaturday #49 weekend with a $99 seminar on Database Design by Louis Davidson. We ended up...
2010-10-18
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SQL Lunch #40 - Mirroring: The Bear Necessities
I am excited to announce a new speaker to the SQL Lunch, Ryan Adams. Ryan will be discussing Database Mirroring...
2010-10-18
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Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing
Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...
2010-10-18
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SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference This Week
Conference Time! The SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference is coming up this week. On October 20-22, you can attend a...
2010-10-18
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What I Did This Weekend
About two weeks ago my good friend and former colleague Justin Hostettler-Davie -JHD (Blog | Twitter) asked me via my wife...
2010-10-18
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SQLSaturday #59 - Speaker Interview #5 with Karen Lopez
SQLSaturday #59 - Speaker Interview #5 with Karen Lopez, (aka datachick)
Let’s trek up North to the great city of Toronto, Canada,...
2010-10-18
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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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