Houston TechFest 2014: SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's
Awesome crowd this morning for my SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's presentation at Houston TechFest 2014, thanks very much...
2014-09-13
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Will Assaf
Restoring Toggle Results Window as Ctrl+R in SSMS
Recent versions of SQL Server Management Studio have unmapped Control+R as the toggle for the Results window in a typical...
2014-09-03
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The Nine SQL Server Careers
Microsoft SQL Server is a mature and broad technology platform that supports a diverse set of careers - this blog post...
2014-09-02
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Painful or Helpful? No SSMS Multiserver Results if One Instance Errors
I've been going back and forth with this question for a few days now.
If one instance in a multiserver query presents an...
2014-09-01 (first published: 2014-08-26)
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SQLSat Birmingham: SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMVs
Thanks for attending my session today SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMVs at 8AM!
Here's the link to a .zip file...
2014-08-21
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SQLSat Birmingham: SQL Server Permissions and Security Principals
Thanks for attending my session today, SQL Server Permissions and Security Principals at 9:15AM!
Here's the link to a .zip file to...
2014-08-21
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SQL Saturday Birmingham 2014
I'm looking forward to geauxing with a handful of Sparkhound colleagues and friends to speak at SQL Saturday Birmingham on...
2014-08-19
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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge Business Intelligence and Recap - 1 of 2
(This is the first part of a two-part post on a SQLSaturday Baton Rouge 2014 recap.)
Been quiet on this blog...
2014-08-10
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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge Business Intelligence and Recap - 2 of 2
(This is the second part of a two-part post on a SQLSaturday Baton Rouge 2014 recap.)
Out of a total of...
2014-08-10
560 reads
"What You Need To Know About Being a DBA and What You Need To Know That You Don’t Know Yet"
Last night was a big success for the first annual Baton Rouge User Groups Networking Night, an all-user-groups invited event...
2014-07-10
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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
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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