The Poor Soul
What should those accidental DBAs do when they don't get any training, but they are responsible for database servers? Steve Jones has a few pieces of advice today.
2015-10-15 (first published: 2011-05-11)
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Editorials
Learn to Use Filegroups
Filegroups are a feature of SQL Server that most people don't use, but they can help you to better manage your databases as your data requirements grow larger and larger.
2015-10-13 (first published: 2011-05-12)
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Deploying tech to the cloud
There is a world of difference between technology originating in or designed for the cloud and technology that predates but can run in the cloud.
2015-10-12
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The Reality of Data Governance
Uncovering how the data 'works' in a business is harder than you might think. You can't get this knowledge second-hand from the IT department. You have to speak to the business at large. However, many people are fearful of the 'bod from IT' and the change that their IT initiatives will bring.
2015-10-12
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Contract to Hire
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at the way some companies look to hire new workers.
2015-10-09
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Choosing Your Tasks
Today Steve Jones asks about your job and if you get to pick the things you work on or is most of your time assigned to tasks by someone else?
2015-10-08 (first published: 2011-05-13)
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2015-10-06
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What Can You Do?
Security alerts and concerns are serious, but that doesn't mean that everyone will treat them that way.
2015-10-05
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2015-09-30
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2015-09-28
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Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
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