There may be a reason why you're wanting to wait for encryption to fully complete before moving to the next step, but I'd just like to bring up fact that...

If I understand you correctly, you want search across all tables and identify which columns contain key values from a primary key column contained in another table. There is no...

PowerShell is an extremely feature rich language; I'll give it that much. But what a dislike about PowerShell is it's syntax. It's a hodgepodge of commands, functions, switches, and pipes.   It's as if the folks...

Hopefully the developers are checking their DDL scripts into a version control system like Git, SVN, or TFS.

Your ideal batch size will depend on the number of rows being deleted, but for a medium powered server I generally use a batch size about 10% size of total...

I'm convinced that for those who are chronically unemployed ( > 3 months ); their biggest handicap is their negative attitude and limited vision. I don't see how any able...

Yes, SQL Azure's contained database model will take some getting used to, but the issue isn't just about security, there are technical reasons why this is done. In a cloud...

I once inadvertently coded an update script that looked something like this:

SET @User = 1234;

UPDATE VeryBigTable
SET Status = 0
WHERE User = User;

From...