SQLBits Friday and Saturday
By David Postlethwaite
The last two days of SQL Bits provide opportunities to hear short 50 minutes presentations from experts
on a...
2011-10-06
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Gethyn Ellis
SQL Bits Training Day
By David Postlethwaite
Just spent a day with Allen White, a SQL MVP from Ohio, USA learning about automating and managing...
2011-09-29
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David’s SQLBITS Day 1–The Travel Day
Just had a pleasurable 5 hours watching the Autumn countryside go by on a glorious sunny day (in fact its...
2011-09-28
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Sharon Dooley’s Lightening Talk and the WIT Luncheon
At the end of last week I received an email from my friend and colleague Sharon Dooley telling me her...
2011-08-31
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Using PowerShell to Monitor SQL Server
By Ian Treasure
Over the past few years, I have used a number of approaches to monitor SQL Server. For example,...
2011-08-30
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VMFS LUN resizing options in vSphere
Introduction
First off, many thanks to Gethyn for the opportunity to post on his excellent blog.
I’m Christian Dadswell and I...
2011-08-24
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Get your AD information with .NET
.NET has a useful class called system.DirectoryServices to query LDAP such as Active Directory
Here is some example code to retrieve...
2011-08-22
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Another New Contributor–Christian Dadswell
This is just a short post to introduce you all to my good friend Christian Dadswell who has kindly agreed...
2011-08-17
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Auditing SQL Logins Addendum
One thing that has come out of auditing successful logins is the number of applications called ".Net SqlClient Data Provider"....
2011-08-16
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Auditing SQL Logins Part II
Written by David Postlethwaite
In a previous blog I talked about how to audit successful logins. So what about failed logins?
As...
2011-08-15
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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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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