Twitter, John, Building a Blog and #MEME15
I saw an interesting post this morning care of the micro-blogging/social networking site twitter that really got me thinking about...
2012-01-15
1,459 reads
Gethyn Ellis
How safe are your secrets?
We’ve all have service accounts, application accounts, sysadmin and domain admin accounts and other privileged shared accounts on our systems....
2012-01-10
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Morning Checks - Forewarned is forearmed
It’s always handy to know if there any problems with your servers before you get into work in the morning....
2012-01-09
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Are you allowed to use social networking at Work?
I was reading this article about internet usage by staff who work for local authorities in Wales http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16394916 The content...
2012-01-06
942 reads
2012: SQL Server, Olympics, Football and Darts
Today is the first day of 2012 and some commentators and bloggers in the SQL Server blog space use this...
2012-01-01
1,078 reads
Happy New Year
Image: ponsuwan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
As 2011 draws to a close and as people look forward to evening of partying and celebrating I’d...
2011-12-31
1,951 reads
Contracting is business not employment: Read the small print
This post is about a contracting in UK. Some of terms mentioned here will not mean a great deal to...
2011-12-19
1,189 reads
Execute Permissions
Written by Ian Treasure
Gethyn posted on the use of execute permissions a while ago (db_executor at http://www.gethynellis.com/2010/04/dbexecutor-role.html). Briefly, this approach...
2011-12-15
1,376 reads
Contracting, SQL Server and gethynellis.com
A while back I started posting some contractor related articles.The articles were mainly for the those people that wanted to...
2011-12-14
595 reads
Destroying a Windows Cluster
I haven’t posted for a while but thought I’d dust off the blog and get a post out. I have...
2011-11-24
4,252 reads
Blogs
PASS Data Community Summit 2024 Day 3 Keynote
By Steve Jones
It’s been an amazing week here, as well as a long week. I’m tired,...
A New Word: Skidding
By Steve Jones
skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but...
PASS Summit – Thursday
By Brian Kelley
Let’s start with the keynote. The biggest take away was how having to support...
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Question of the Day
Backing up the Database Encryption Key
In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this:
USE Sales; GO CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256 ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE MyServerCert; GOThis works, but I want to prepare for the future and potential issues. How do I back up my DEK? See possible answers