Thomas Abraham (8/14/2012)

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Excellent question. I particularly like questions, like this one, that highlight areas where the behavior is not as one might think, or is different than you might find...

Don't forget to make sure to set Group Policy up for these accounts as you see fit, and if need be, set up Proxy accounts also.

Personally, I tend to make...

SQL Server will happily take UNC's; I've seen backups to SANs, to SNAP drives on a SAN, to local disks (correctly to spindles other than the spindles holding the database...

jay-h (7/30/2012)[hr

I disagree. Having a single ID (this includes things like Facebook, Google+ etc) is essentially the same thing as having a single password. If that ID is compromised,...

Essentially, we're in the same continuous balance of convenience vs. security against each type of threat that we always are.

I generally agree that a passphrase document is the way to...

As Paul stated, "Now, this is a very contrived test, with a single operation in my workload - it's...

Note also that replacing a failed PCIe SSD is going to require shutting the server down. Replacing hot-swap drives (SSD or spindle) does not.

PCIe SSD's need to be in...

Small companies buying big products often end up with large consulting bills to get that big product to do what they want; they're simply not built for an all-default install...

That is exactly what...

I'm also trying to do this (with the business goal of being able to generate a report of reports, including both connection string and username for every report, for auditing...

Hire an expert who's familiar with PCI-DSS implementations and audits to give you advice and show you the references they use, and the caveats for their use; security is an...

Can you provide some more information on your Recoverpoint automation? We're starting to work with RecoverPoint as well, though without clustering, so our scenario is a little simpler (mount...

A good introduction to some aspects of storage, marred by some Fusion-IO/PCIe SSD specific perspective, generalizations without supporting evidence, and the very serious flaw of lacking a discussion of RAID...

GilaMonster (6/20/2012)

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Highly unlikely, since he wrote the index rebuild functionality.

My notes however could very well be in error....

If you have to ask this early in the development cycle, then you won't be able to get a good answer this early in the development cycle.

There are two major...