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  • Reply To: High Prices for High Security

    "..Is it a big deal? I don’t know. Windows Server 2019 lists  with Datacenter at $6155 and Standard at $972. That means it will cost me $5,183 for Always Encrypted on...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Long Live All Passwords

    A biometric ID is basically a "secret" hash, just like a password. Hackers can leverage network sniffing, spoofed login page, or some other man in the middle exploit to collect...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: How to read each record and erase duplicates in a column

    I see you have posted the original resultset, however, so we know for sure what the goal is, please post a sample of what the resultset should look like after...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: What Keeps You Employed?

    My answer depends on the situation. If I'm at the bank applying for a car loan or enrolling my kids in school, and I'm asked about my occupation, then I'll...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Reading data from 0x05

    The fact that the documents are contained inside a database column is actually working against you. If the documents were contained in a folder, then several options would be available...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Burning Out

    In the early stage of developing on a new project, when I'm learning and creating, I don't mind working late and putting in more hours. In fact, I get a...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: No State Based Deployments

    "..The problem is that at some point a state based deployment process won't work. It's actually impossible for a state based approach to work in all situations. Simple actions, like...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Reading data from 0x05

    To reduce file size, MS Word documents are compressed using PKZIP format (a form of LZ compression). You can leverage BCP to export contents of a VARBINARY column to a...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: The SQL Saturday Thread

    Who else here will be at SQL Saturday in Atlanta tomorrow?

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Where Do You End Up as a DBA?

    David.Poole wrote:

    One caution I would add is that if you operate in a specialist area that only other DBAs will appreciate then you risk being invisible within your organisation except...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Serverless Databases

    I believe that concerns about page buffer pool, plan cache, and latency are outside the intended use case for this type of serverless databases. It's definitely not for high volume...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: How to purposely corrupt a master database

    I've never done this before, but assuming a scenario where you've lost the MASTER database, have no good backups, but do still have good user database (MDF) files, it may...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Getting useful Metadata from SQL Server

    Microsoft's MSDN website has good documentation, and there are a couple of books by RedGate that might be useful.

    Here are a few that I've bookmarked in the past to get...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: Where Do You End Up as a DBA?

    The higher a DBA climbs up the mountain, the more he or she will realize how big the world is, and how many more mountains there are. Of course, if...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • Reply To: multiple tables referencing single primary key

    Perhaps it's a limitation of the GUI you're using to design your tables. T-SQL certainly allows for declaring the same foreign key in multiple tables.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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