Today, the modern IT professional has to be more "cosmopolitan" in regards to knowledge and expertise. It's not like the old days where someone could spend a decade embedded...

You know what the excruciatingly missing piece to all this is? Documentation. Not the BS that passes for documentation these days, I'm talking "For Dummies" level intro material that...

to be clear, the HGS server can be Win2019 Standard. It's the SQL Server (s) that do crypto that have do be data center.

No encryption of decryption for HGS. This is like a witness that "attests" that enclave is secure. Or that the SQL Server is the correct SQL Server that was configured...

Mostly a trick if you have columns misnamed and are trying to address them by the name, as opposed to location. I think location code is always more brittle, while...

Issue filed and in progress.

Biometrics are great, until you realize a few things. An injury, like a paper cut to a finger, can cut you out of access. Work in some industries, your fingerprints...

As an FYI, asking for replication to be implemented is a large change, especially with the potential issues of coupling with log backups in the future. More, I would ask...

Not only would I follow that advice, but I'd have that discussion in person then follow up with a bulleted email of the "requirements" discussed, asking for the DBA...

It is, but some maintenance stuff in there. Unless the data changes, I wouldn't expect you to lose rows from an index out of date. You might miss new rows,...

The performance counter. Not total memory, the target memory the reporting instance is wanting

Closing: Post here: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/issue-with-labels-in-a-pie-chart

That's a different article. Many companies don't want to do comparisons because it upsets one or more advertisers. It's also very hard to do a good objective review since many...

This might help you: https://www.sqlshack.com/automatically-maintain-full-text-indexes-catalogs/

Closing, see other thread