New Ideas for SQLSaturday
Jack Corbett and I are trying a few new things at SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando this year (Oct 16, 2010)...
2010-09-08
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Tip: RESTORE FILELISTONLY / WITH MOVE
As we’ve seen in recent DBARant-able tales, not everyone is completely familiar with methods of restoring SQL backup files to...
2010-09-08
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What is Normalization in SQL ?
=> What is normalization ?
Defination :Normalization is the process of efficiently organizing data in a database. There are two goals of...
2010-09-07
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Please don’t Tweet this, but…
This is reprinted from my editorial in Database Weekly.
During some recent conversations, I’ve noticed an increasing tendency for people to...
2010-09-07
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More Notes on Live Meeting Presentations
Yesterday I did another presentation via Live Meeting, some thoughts from that effort:
Perf VC team did a great job making...
2010-09-07
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Slide Deck for Introduction to Statistics
Here is the slide from the presentation today for the PASS Performance Tuning Virtual Chapter. Thanks to all those that...
2010-09-07
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Tagxedo
I found this while looking for a quick way to throw some words into a slide, was thinking something along...
2010-09-07
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Links From Twitter
Normally, I try to stick to posting technical info or community stuff on the blog, but there were a couple...
2010-09-07
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At The End of the IO Road With C#
Previously I’ve written about doing fun IO stuff in C#. I found out that some of my old tricks still...
2010-09-07
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Reminder: Introduction to Statistics Presentation Today at Noon
I’ll be doing a presentation titled Introduction to Statistics in SQL Server today (Sep 7, 2010) at noon for the...
2010-09-07
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Car Update: August 2026
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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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