Excellent article on securing msdb
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's why you should read it if you're a DBA or security professional.
2026-08-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many people have stopped blogging that it’s a challenge to keep this going. Jeff Taylor has...
2026-08-11
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When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than simply creating one and using it. As I started digging into the topic, I realized...
2026-08-11
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Accept the no and move on
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin. When we are rejected, whatever the situation, many of us want to know why. We...
2026-08-10
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Don’t Fight with AI
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools to see how well things worked. I realized that AI isn’t great for everything and...
2026-08-10
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Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the diagnosis and it will usually stop at the first two subtasks that come to mind:...
2026-08-07
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Car Update: August 2026
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to showcase a few things I’ve learned about my cars since the last one. In this...
2026-08-07
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Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales owns sales transactions, Finance owns budgets, and Shared Data owns common tables such as Customer,...
2026-08-06
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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 do you start when evaluating the security of your SQL Server? If you are like...
2026-08-06
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EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!
It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00 UTC, and registration is open right now. It’s completely free. No catch, just a full...
2026-08-06
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
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Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
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