Attacks on Unsecured Databases
Unsecured databases are a problem, but someone is fighting this issue by wiping them out.
Azure Data Factory : Your First Data Pipeline
Introduction Azure Data Factory is the cloud-based ETL and data integration service that allows you to create data-driven workflows for orchestrating data movement and transforming data at scale. We can create and schedule data pipelines which can move data between various supported data stores. We can also use for data transformation before loading it into […]
SQL Server Bulk Insert for Multiple CSV Files from a Single Folder
Check out this article to see how to quickly import into SQL Server many files with the same structure using T-SQL.
A Data Attack
A ransomware attack takes down Garmin, not just the company, but also Steve's data. He has a few thoughts about what this might mean for our data.
Protect SQL Databases with Dell EMC PowerProtect and DataDomain Under VMware
Introduction We are now in the data era – data is growing at rapid space, being processed in different ways, and becoming more distributed across data centers and clouds. Thus databases are also growing and they are stored and protected in various ways depending on business objectives. As more organizations continue to move application and […]
Storage 101: Data Security and Privacy
No discussion about storage is complete without thinking about security of the data. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains what must be considered to protect data in today's world.
How to be an MVP
For those of you who haven’t heard of it, MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional. Microsoft gives this award to people in the community – not employees – who help teach the community at large about their products. The award can be given in one or more of the categories such as Data Platform, AI, […]
Finding Separation During WFH
Steve talks about working from home and finding ways to manage your work life balance.
Visualise SQL Server IO Stats
Visualise and compare the output of set statistics io on with Power BI to assist with performance tuning.
Gathering SQL Server Performance Counters for Multiple Servers
SQL Multi Script can easily be persuaded to run queries at the server level rather than the database level. It is also able to combine results from many databases even if the results aren't identical but have some different columns. Phil Factor demonstrates how this works, when collecting a set of performance counters from all databases on a distribution list of servers.
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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