Enable Transparent Data Encryption
This is one of the things in my Encryption Primer presentation that I don’t demo. It’s really easy to do,...
2012-08-30 (first published: 2012-08-28)
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Blog Posts
Holiday
Taking some of my own advice. I’m off today and tomorrow, as well as Monday for Labor Day. Across this...
2012-08-30
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Install product update during SQL 2012 installation
SQL Server 2012 setup program has 2 new installation parameter
1. /UpdateEnabled:
Specify whether SQL Server setup should discover and include...
2012-08-30
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Invited to the PASS Summit Blogger Table
Earlier this week I RSVP’d to an invitation to sit again at the bloggers table at the Summit. It was...
2012-08-30
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SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 3
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 3, which is Build 11.00.2332. There are 36 fixes (by my...
2012-08-30
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Windows 8 and Hyper-V: It’s that easy!
First, I need to set the record straight – I am not a systems guy. When I need work done to...
2012-08-30
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Free Second Shot offer for Microsoft Certification Exams
Nothing for me to really say except if you mess up, you get a free second chance Click HERE to see...
2012-08-29
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Misc Links for Aug 29,2012
Sword fighting. A friend sent me this, debunks the movie view we have of sword fighting. I can’t say I...
2012-08-29
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PowerShell: Redirecting Console Output and Error Output to a Variable and E-mailing it
I recently had the need to script the execution of a command-line utility and thought it would be a good...
2012-08-29 (first published: 2012-08-28)
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Reporting on common code smells : A POC
Over the past few blog entries, I’ve been looking at parsing TSQL scripts in a variety of ways for a...
2012-08-29
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Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The DBA is Dead; Long...
Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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