Well, it seems my personal laptop has bought the farm...

A couple months back, the battery wouldn't hold enough of a charge to keep the laptop on, closely followed by the...

Well, on #2 I did some checking on one of my SQL2012s. Turns out that the GUEST User is enabled on both MSDB and MASTER. I spot checked...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/3/2016)

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I agree and don't.

First, companies can do what they want. That's part of having a free market. What I think we should also have, perhaps...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/3/2016)

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jasona.work (10/3/2016)

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Which, really, comes around to "why in the H*LL does my refrigerator need to be on the internet in the first place?" So...

Luis Cazares (10/3/2016)

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jasona.work (10/3/2016)

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Ugh...

Those of you in the US might have heard about the "creepy clowns" that seem to be popping up all over the place, especially the one down...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/3/2016)

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chrisn-585491 (10/3/2016)

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99.99 percent of the internet is fragile. Why?

Nobody wants to spend the money and pass the laws make security seriously. We have millions...

Ugh...

Those of you in the US might have heard about the "creepy clowns" that seem to be popping up all over the place, especially the one down in Georgia that...

No problem, I just saw it was in the SQL2014 forum and presumed.

Being on SQL2008, you're either going to need to script up something to auto-generate the scripts, find a...

You might (I'd test this against QA first) be able to use DBCC CLONEDATABASE for this. If you can do what I'm thinking, you'd get a nice, empty, read-only...

Congrats!

I was going to set up a test tonight on this, because from the way Steve was talking (and I was misunderstanding) it sounded like the cert would be in...

djackson 22568 (9/29/2016)

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jasona.work (9/29/2016)

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djackson 22568 (9/29/2016)

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jasona.work (9/29/2016)

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The thing to remember about the MTBF numbers is, it's a Mean, not an absolute. So you could have (using Daves' RAID-5 example)...

Terrie (9/29/2016)

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Thanks for replying. So I can use a different certificate for each database I want to encrypt. What about the master key. Is that the same...

djackson 22568 (9/29/2016)

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jasona.work (9/29/2016)

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The thing to remember about the MTBF numbers is, it's a Mean, not an absolute. So you could have (using Daves' RAID-5 example) 3 SSDs in...

The thing to remember about the MTBF numbers is, it's a Mean, not an absolute. So you could have (using Daves' RAID-5 example) 3 SSDs in a RAID-5 array.

Drive...

I would expect that would depend on the needs and requirements of your environment.

A secure type environment might require you to use a separate certificate for each database (even if...