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Databases with MAXSIZE Set

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Database Journal

MS SQL

Every DBA needs to appropriately manage database growth. No DBA wants an application to fail because the database is out of space. A database can run out of space a number of different ways. One of those ways is to set the MAXSIZE of a database. When the database grows to the MAXSIZE the database will not grow anymore and if someone tries to add more rows they will get an error saying the database is full.

Jobs You Wouldn't Expect To Be Threatened By Tech But Are

by Donna Morgese

SQLServerCentral.com

Uncategorized

Will there be a fair balance between the coming generations of technology and the human workforce? Here is a list of industries that may not think yes.

Providing Feedback to Speakers

by drsql@hotmail.com

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

One of the greatest things that has arisen in the past 10 years or so is a veritable stream of great conferences for people to learn how to write better software, many of them low cost or even free. In the Data Platform community, we have had nearly 800 free SQL Saturday events around the […]

State v Migrations

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Steve Jones talks a bit about the difference between state based and migrations based approaches for deployment.

Hyper-V and PowerShell: Shielded Virtual Machines

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SimpleTalk

Hyper-V

In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft have implemented a strong security concept called Shielded Virtual Machines. Shielded VMs have been improved in the Windows Server 2019 release. In the second part of this series, Nicolas describes what Shielded Virtual Machines are and how to configure them using PowerShell.

Idle Connection Resiliency

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Microsoft MSDN

ODBC

Describes the idle connection resiliency feature, which allows ODBC and SqlClient data access applications to maintain their connections to SQL Server 2014 or an Azure SQL Database.