If you ever want to see a serious FOD walk, look up videos of aircraft carrier crews doing an FOD check of the flight deck.  Crewmen lined up across the...

It's perhaps a bit cynical, but it also certainly seems to be true in many cases...

In IT, if everything is working smoothly and well, upper management is asking "what are...

Well, I suppose there is one small advantage to the occasional bought of spam in the forums...

It can "bubble up" an older post that still makes an interesting read (such...

That's pretty much what I found, so for now, we're sticking with user / pwd.

The next step in the process is going to be migrating the database off SQL2019 and...

I see where I made the question more confusing, I brought Key Vault into the mix.  Apologies.

The developer was aiming to have their app in Azure App Services be given...

Saw this, this evening, thought it would be appreciated here.  Arguably, it COULD be put in any of the other forum sections, but...

A backup isn't a backup until you have...

Steve I very much appreciate the effort you and the crew take to keep our information both secure and out of the hands of marketers.  At this point, I've lost...

There's always going to be a place for some form of a DBA, changes in technology are just going to change WHAT the day-to-day work looks like.

Reading David.Poole's comment made...

Heh, it's bad enough getting people (myself included!) to keep documentation up-to-date, imaging managers' frustration (and the workers) trying to keep two different formats (human-readable / automation-agent-AI) of the same...

I've done the DP900 data fundamentals, DP300 Database administrator, AZ900 Azure Fundamentals & AZ104 Azure administrator

Can't say that they've enhanced my career but my company were prepared to pay...

The problem is that the thumbprint of the certificates is different, because the certificates are different.

Easy fix, you need to take the backup of the certificate you created on Prod...

I've only been to a few conferences (SQL in the City way back when, PASS twice now, a few SQL Saturdays, and PASS Chicago) so far.  Generally if I don't...

So by default a SQL Audit will capture ALL activity by all Logins, with no filtering.  The filters are for excluding users / particular actions / individual databases (if you...

I'm not sure what you're trying to do here.

You have a SQL Audit, you have an AD Group with members, and you're trying to filter on something, but I'm not...

I think I see the disconnect between what you're saying and what I'm saying.  I'm coming at this from a "production DBA" mindset, where I don't normally develop code for...