It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re not doing any real work anyway.

Posts That Were Popular This Week

• Using Encryption To Protect Your Data From Alien Abduction
• Cheating DBCC To Fix Index Corruption
• Don’t Get Slimed By Bad Parameter Sniffing
• Building The Redneck Treadmill Desk
• Building (for FREE) a Virtual Server for SQL Demos
• Do You Need A Log Recovery Tool?
• What Are Your Servers Doing While You’re Sleeping?
• Using A Non-correlated Subquery To Avoid DISTINCT
• Vital Statistics and Health Checks
• Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 1

Comments That Were Posted This Week

• Connie OI on Vital Statistics and Health Checks:
  Tracy, Congratulations! You’ve done an amazing job of turning around your health. I have also found MyFitnessPal very helpful, although I haven’t used a fitBit or anything like that.
• realsqlguy on Vital Statistics and Health Checks:
  Thank you Connie

This Week In History

None, the past holds no lessons this week

That’s it for this week. Get back to work!