Whitepaper Wednesday - Introducing Microsoft StreamInsight
Hey folks,
It's whitepaper Wednesday again and this week we're talking about "Introducing Microsoft StreamInsight" by: Torsten Grabs, Roman Schindlauer, Ramkumar...
2010-09-06
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An impossible case
In a previous blog entry (Inconsistent NullIf behaviour), Jeff Moden and Dan Halliday(twitter) both made a very similar observation.
When executing...
2010-09-06
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Idera SQL Tools – An evaluation (Part 2)
This is the 2nd in the series of evaluations I have carried out on Idera’s SQL Server Toolbox. The first...
2010-09-06
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SQL Saturday #48 - Columbia, SC Schedule Posted
The sessions have been selected and we have posted the schedule for SQL Saturday #48 - Columbia, SC. A huge thank...
2010-09-06
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Parallelism in SSIS - Multiple Lookups
This question just came up in the forums, and it highlights how difficult it can be to try to optimize...
2010-09-06
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Thoughts about the PASS BoD Nomination Process
I know I was one of the more vocal ones these past two years when the set of nominees were...
2010-09-06
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Renaming a column in Sql Server
We often need to change the name of a column of a table to a new name. We can do...
2010-09-06
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Labor Day Bloopers
Happy Labor day to everyone. A day off for me, but I’m posting a few bloopers from the past couple...
2010-09-06
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In the Interest of Disclosure
Yesterday I attended an internal training course on social networking. The class was targeted toward the 100 level, but like...
2010-09-03
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Re-learning how to think
Cross-posted from The Goal Keeping DBA:
Re-learning how to think is always a difficult process. My oldest son is starting the...
2010-09-03
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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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