Cyber-attacks and data breaches seem to be perpetually on the rise. Every week we hear news of large companies that have had data stolen with both financial and reputational...
2022-12-14 (first published: 2022-11-30)
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Today’s coping tip is to contact someone you can’t be with to see how they are. Maybe the one thing the pandemic did for me is make me think...
2022-12-13
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Garry Bargsley (blog | twitter) wants to know what activities we...
2022-12-13
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Today’s coping tip is to look at life through someone else’s eyes and see their perspective. I have my own views, beliefs, and thoughts about the world. However, I...
2022-12-12
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The title of this blog post is a bit misleading, because what we actually want to do is to install the SSIS development functionality in Visual Studio 2022. SSAS...
2022-12-12 (first published: 2022-11-25)
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SQL Server has had the native ability to encrypt data since SQL Server 2005. This included functionality that could be used to encrypt individual items and columns of data...
2022-12-12
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Making multilingual reports in Power BI requires a lot of different elements. Translations can be added to PBIX files to translate column names, visual titles, etc. but these translations...
2022-12-12 (first published: 2022-11-30)
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Today’s coping tip is to find out something new about someone you care about. I took the time to do this at the recent PASS Summit. During events like...
2022-12-09
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2022-12-09
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We all (should) know that running SQL Server in hyperconverged virtual environments, both on-premises and in the cloud, has some interesting trade-offs. The biggest is write latency from the...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-25)
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By Steve Jones
It’s been an amazing week here, as well as a long week. I’m tired,...
By Steve Jones
skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but...
By Brian Kelley
Let’s start with the keynote. The biggest take away was how having to support...
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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