Whenever our DBA team piles into a car for our lunch outing, we (usually) leave behind one or two designated survivors.

The basics for a DBA are: disaster recovery, security, and connectivity. 

The first thing I would do is confirm that backups are scheduled. You want to at least have...

Talk about micromanagement ...
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Once upon a time, corporations thought they had a right to dump their waste in the river, conceal the ingredients they put in their products, and incredibly even buy and...

OK, companies like Google would argue that every internet company collects and archives data from users of their apps. It's not just their business model, it's the business model of...

This article is posing several different questions. For the point of sale end of the business, you definitely want to keep the security cameras, because interaction with the customer doesn't...

SSIS packages are contained in .dtsx files and the underlying data format is XML. You should see things like referenced database objects and T-SQL commands in clear text. Other protected...

This script you've posted is missing a description and comments, but what it appears to be doing is a SELECT COUNT(*) across *every* table and column in the database, even...

Good point. If we use different passwords for each...

Bunting and stealing are highly effective, if the individual player is a string runner.. and especially if the other team doesn't see it coming (ie: they read the memo that...