Hope!
2020 was a rough year. We’ve had friends and family leave us. Jobs lost. Health scares a plenty and that’s ... Continue reading
2020-12-31
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Firewall Ports You Need to Open for Availability Groups
This article has demonstrated a meaningful and efficient method to test and validate the necessary firewall ports for Availability Groups (AG) and WFC.
The post Firewall Ports You Need to...
2020-12-31
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Firewall Ports You Need to Open for Availability Groups
This article has demonstrated a meaningful and efficient method to test and validate the necessary firewall ports for Availability Groups (AG) and WFC.
The post Firewall Ports You Need to...
2021-01-06 (first published: 2020-12-31)
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Experiments With Go Arrays and Slices
Simplicity Over Syntactic Sugar
As I’ve been learning Go, I’ve grown to learn that many decisions to simplify the language have removed many features that provide more succinct expressions in...
2021-01-07 (first published: 2020-12-30)
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Creating an HTML URL from a PowerShell String–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I wrote about getting a quick archive of...
2020-12-30
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2020 was certainly a year on the calendar
According to my blog post schedule, this is the final post of the year. It’s nothing more than a coincidence, but making it through the worst year in living...
2020-12-30
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Daily Coping 30 Dec 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-12-30
44 reads
How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
8 reads
How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
4 reads
How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
8 reads
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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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