Humble Bundle of Java Books
I try to keep an eye on the Humble Bundle bundles for books. The bundles serve two great purposes: I was able to grab the Cybersecurity bundle, but by...
2024-02-26
121 reads
Brian Kelley
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Security Justifications for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Last week, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) put out an emergency directive which ordered federal agencies to pull Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure installations from...
2024-02-23 (first published: 2024-02-05)
186 reads
David Kahn, legendary author, has passed away
I first saw this at Schneier on Security. David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers, has passed away at 93. The Codebreakers was considered the best book on the history...
2024-02-05
39 reads
ISACA Journal Article on AI
The first issue of 2024 for the ISACA Journal has been published and the articles are available both in written and on-line format. I have a regular column on...
2024-02-02
16 reads
BI Training with Eugene Meidinger
I’ve known Eugene Meidinger (SQLGene) for a number of years and we share a lot of interests outside of technology. We’re both avid boardgame and card game players, though...
2024-01-31
56 reads
Videos from MITRE ATT&CKcon 4.0
If you aren’t familiar with the ATT&CK framework and knowledge base, it’s a tool to help classify and understand cyberattacks. Recently (Oct 2023), ATT&CKcon 4.0 was held and MITRE...
2024-01-29
10 reads
SQL Server documentation refresh: Logical and physical showplan operator reference
Understanding query plans is key to successful query tuning in Microsoft SQL Server. Randolph West of the Microsoft docs team posted on Thursday that the logical and physical showplan...
2024-01-26
40 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #170 – Learning from Failure
So what did I learn? I think a better question is, "What did I re-learn?"
2024-01-26 (first published: 2024-01-09)
233 reads
Is that the right question to ask?
This is not a “clickbait” title, but an important consideration when it comes to developing technical solutions. Let me give you an example between two questions for SQL Server...
2023-11-29 (first published: 2023-11-17)
243 reads
Giving a Security Webinar this Wednesday
If you haven’t already signed up, on November 29, 2023, at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time, I’m presenting a webinar on how to harden SQL Server. Link to Register...
2023-11-27
8 reads
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: CIS Compliant
By Steve Jones
A new feature added to Redgate Monitor Enterprise automatically. CIS compliance is something many...
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Forums
String Variable and sp_executesql
I am not understanding why this command completes "successfully" and it seems correct to...
printing complete path
get-ChildItem C:\ -recurse -erroraction silentlycontinue | sort length -descending | select -first 10 FullName,length...
Question of the Day
Superseded Indexes
Which of these indexes is superseded by another?
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