SQL Homework – January 2020 – Document, document, document
Happy New Year! It being New Year’s, at least by the Gregorian calendar, I thought we could make this month’s ... Continue reading
2020-01-01
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Kenneth Fisher
What happens if I disable the clustered index?
You are probably already aware that you can disable an index. This can be handy when you have a large ... Continue reading
2019-12-30 (first published: 2019-12-16)
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A gift. T-SQL Tuesday #121
My good friend Malathi Mahadevan (blog|twitter) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and wants us to talk about Gifts received ... Continue reading
2019-12-23 (first published: 2019-12-10)
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Viewing Azure SQL DB security with sp_AzSQLDBPermissions
A few months back I put the Azure SQL DB version of my permissions script into beta. I’m not sure ... Continue reading
2019-12-18
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SQL Homework – December 2019 – The default trace and the system health session.
I know this is the holiday season for many of us (which ones depend on your religion and nationality of ... Continue reading
2019-12-17 (first published: 2019-12-02)
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Bad Idea Cowboy Hat: BEGIN TRANSACTION; GO 1000;
One of my favorite presentations is Revenge the SQL by Rob Volk (blog|twitter). It’s a demonstration of a lot of ... Continue reading
2019-12-12 (first published: 2019-11-27)
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Session Evaluations from “SQL Server Security from the Ground Up”
I was recently given the opportunity to speak at Pass Summit. As always (this is the second time) this was ... Continue reading
2019-12-12
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Error message: http://System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ‘NULL’ to data type int.
I love this error. Primarily because it demonstrates two very important things. Errors matter. Make sure when you ask someone ... Continue reading
2019-12-11 (first published: 2019-12-05)
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#PowershellBasics: Working with arrays
I mentioned arrays in a previous post so I figured I should talk about what they are and how to ... Continue reading
2019-12-06 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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DBA Myths: Is an identity column always unique, in order, and without gaps?
Identity columns are all over the place. Probably 80-90% of the tables I see have them and they are almost ... Continue reading
2019-11-29 (first published: 2019-11-20)
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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