This is called salting the password. As Eddie noted, the authenticator is a good way to handle this. You could use something like adding the second letter of the user...

Thanks and that's a good point. I'll update the article to note this is positives only.

No plans right now. We're updating the main site in a few ways, and that will change some APIs. Once that's done, I'll see about what can be done here.

Ugh, edit error. Capture data on the performance of the database queries.

Query Store captures metrics on queries that run often. It can determine which plans were used and...

The Query Store is a warehouse of query plans and stats, essentially capturing activity of plans that lets you analyze how well things perform. You can also force plans from...

XE with oledb data read?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53323361/capture-linked-server-queries-using-sql-extended-events

Thanks, you, too.

I think it's hard to decide how to handle this. T-Mobile has a breach, you get upset and move to O2, Verizon, ATT, etc. The thing is, those companies might...

Very strange. I know that sometimes a reboot is needed. My first install of CU4 noted that my system needed a reboot, but the second time (after reboot), this just...