Windows Search Enable Your Script Files
At the July 8th Tampa PowerShell User Group meeting, Ed Wilson (blog|twitter) gave a presentation on “PowerShell Best Practices.” One...
2010-07-10
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Delivering the Bad News
It’s a Friday, the day governments & companies traditionally deliver bad news. I recived the bad news earlier in the week,...
2010-07-09
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SQLSaturday #49 Pre-Con Announced
We’re pleased to announce that Louis Davidson will be our pre-con speaker this year at SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando. Louis...
2010-07-09
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Speaking at 2010 PASS Summit in Seattle
I just found out yesterday that I had one of my General sessions approved for the 2010 PASS Summit in...
2010-07-09
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The PASS Session Selection Process, My Experience Part 2
In part one I talked about the abstracts. While important, abstracts are only one part of a complicated selection dance....
2010-07-09
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This week’s SQL Lunch was great !
Hey there SQL Lunchers. Your co-host Adam Jorgensen here. I wanted to let you know, for those of you whose...
2010-07-09
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Another Update on Goals
I was querying the SQLServerCentral database for something else today, and I decided to take a minute and double check...
2010-07-09
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SQL Server Agent – Proxy error
I was setting up some SQL Server agent jobs in a test environment. I needed one of our testers to...
2010-07-09
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Windows 7 Run As
One of the things that got us to switch OSes from W2K to WinXP when I was an administrator at...
2010-07-09
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PASS Update #36
We had our monthly Board of Directors call on July 8th and as is fairly common, the call went smooth....
2010-07-09
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Blogs
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...
SQL Server Security Hardening Guide Using the DoD STIG Checklist
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!
It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00...
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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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