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.
Getting Started with Azure DevOps
Microsoft provides Azure DevOps for hosting your repos, setting up pipelines and more. In this article, Diogo Souza shows you how to get started using Azure DevOps.
Hands-On with Columnstore Indexes: Part 3 Maintenance and Additional Options
In the final article of this series, Edward Pollack demonstrates the maintenance of columnstore indexes. He also takes a look at nonclustered columnstore and memory-optimized columnstore indexes.
Blogs
SQL Server Journey Part 2: Modern Era (2017 – 2026) – AI/Cloud First
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In cryptography, the RSA and ECC algorithms which we use primarily for asymmetric cryptography...
The Book of Redgate: No Politics
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In today’s world, this might mean something different, but in 2010, we had this...
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Identities and Sequences II
In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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