Renewed as a Friend of Red Gate
I recently received the news that I’ve been renewed as a Friend of Red Gate. I’ve been a big fan of Red Gate since the days when SQL Compare...
2020-02-25
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Brian Kelley
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SheLeadsTech Webinar: Braving the Wilderness of Cybersecurity
ISACA has a SheLeadsTech webinar for tomorrow, February 25, 2020 titled Braving the Wilderness of Cybersecurity. Registration Link: https://www.isaca.org/education/online-events/lms_w022520 If you can’t make the talk, ISACA archives all webinars...
2020-02-24
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[Cross post] Innovating Yourself as an IS Auditor
This is also posted to the ISACA Journal blog, Practically Speaking: As new technologies are developed, we have to stay up to date with them. More so than almost...
2020-01-08 (first published: 2020-01-02)
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Azure – BGP Community for Application Insights (Need Votes)
Working with Microsoft, we determined that there is no BGP community for Azure’s Application Insights. As a result, I’ve created a feedback request for Microsoft to consider doing just...
2020-01-08 (first published: 2019-12-30)
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Personal Goal Accomplished: Speaking at the PASS Summit
I mentioned on twitter that a family tragedy about a decade ago had resulted in a false start with respect to this goal: After a false start about a...
2019-11-07
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Should I Be Worried About skip-2.0?
A new piece of malware which hooks into SQL Server, skip-2.0, has been making the tech media rounds. If you’ve not read about it yet or you’re looking for...
2019-10-25
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SQL Server Security: Fixed Database Roles
Brian is back with a new security article, this time working through the details of the fixed database roles. There are some important concepts here. In particular if you're not totally clear on the difference between dbo and db_owner, read this article.
2019-09-18 (first published: 2003-12-12)
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July 2019 – New Microsoft security update for Spectre variant
If you remember the flurry of news from the beginning of 2018 about side channel attacks called Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft has included in its July update a patch...
2019-08-20 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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New Security Update for SQL Server in July 2019 Patches
It doesn’t look like this would affect SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 since the earliest reported platform is SQL Server 2014, but in Microsoft’s release of...
2019-07-17 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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Basic SQL Server Configuration Help for Involuntary DBAs
After my presentation at the Techno Security and Digital Forensics conference, I had a information security professional stop by to ask a few questions. He’s in the position where...
2019-06-24 (first published: 2019-06-10)
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
Forums
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers