Steve Jones looks at the positive side of someone else doing your work when you're on vacation. There's an interesting benefit for the company.

How SQL Cluster Resource DLLs work with Cluster Components

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Clustering

In this article Nirmal Sharma explains the SQL Server internal clustering process

SQL Server 2008 Transparent Data Encryption getting started

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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

While reviewing the new features in SQL Server 2008, we noticed Transparent Data Encryption. This sounds very interesting. Could you provide us with an explanation and the details to implement it?

Do You Want to Be Right?

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SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Steve Jones talks about being right versus being effective in your IT work.

The Database Weekly Update for June 16, 2008

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Steve Jones looks back at the news of the past, including a look at RC0, the latest release of SQL Server 2008.

SAN basics every SQL Server DBA must know

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Hardware

Learn storage area network (SAN) basics that SQL Server DBAs must know. Understand SQL storage concerning RAID levels, redundancy and snapshots vs. backups.

SQL Server Audit in SQL Server 2008 – Part 1

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Auditing

SQL Server 2008 February CTP introduces a new feature, SQL Server Audit. This feature facilitates auditing of Database Engine events by providing simple T-SQL statements to enable, store, and view audits on server and database objects. Part 1 of this series focuses on the server level events.