Office 365 Essentials - Subscriptions and Licenses
Should you be planning to move from Exchange to Office 365? If so, why? What sort of license should you get, and should you use cloud identities or federated identities for your users?
Yet Another Attack Vector
The lack of progress in amending our laws to handle the digital revolution in our leaves may leave us open to unexpected attacks.
Quickly Investigating What's in the Tables of SQL Server Databases
From SQL Server Management Studio it's hard to look through the first few rows of a whole lot of tables in a database. This is odd, since it is a great way to get quickly familiar with a database. Phil tidied up a SQL routine he uses to investigate databases quickly in a browser. He explains how to use it, how it works, and how to use it from PowerShell.
How to configure SSL encryption in SQL Server
Tibor Nagy explains how to configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on our SQL Servers, with a trusted certificate.
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Out of memory errors
The number of out of memory errors that have occurred within a rolling five minute window. If you just want to keep an eye out for any memory errors, you can watch the ring buffers for the Out of memory errors alert when it gets registered there.
Automate Your Central Management Server Registrations
Easily register SQL Servers in your inventory to your CMS for easy multi-server queries.
Disconnecting Auditing
Currently we have system administrators responsible for securing our systems, including the auditing capabilities. However that's not the best way to ensure that we can protect our systems.
The Broad View
An ingenuous use of existing data leads to the thought - when are we so deep in our work that we can't see how to improve?
Common database deployment blockers and Continuous Delivery headaches
Deployability is now a first class concern for databases, so why isn’t it as easy as it should be? Matthew Skelton explores seven of the most common challenges which will bring your database deployments to their knees.
SQL Saturday #300 - Kansas City
SQL Saturday is coming to Kansas on September 13, 2014. Our very own Steve Jones will be presenting, alongside other big names like Glenn Berry, Kathi Kellenberger, Sean and Jen McCown, Jason Strate, and many more. Register while space is available.
Blogs
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Plan
By Brian Kelley
My most recent bout with imposter syndrome was with ISACA’s Digital Trust Ecosystem Framework...
Advice I Like: Celebrate Success
By Steve Jones
“On the way to a grand goal, celebrate the smallest victories as if each...
Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
Forums
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Question of the Day
Increase Deadlock Detection
How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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