Back To (Security) Basics
Security is very much on our minds these days. Scarcely a day goes by without hearing of a yet another...
2017-12-06 (first published: 2017-11-27)
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The Monday Morning DBA
File This Under File Groups (Part 1)
I never had cause to give much consideration to storage when I was a SQL developer. The companies I worked...
2017-11-19
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Spaced-Out Strings
I came across this in a code review not long ago:
Three things pop into my head when I see this...
2017-11-27 (first published: 2017-11-13)
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A View On Views
In my experience, there are few database objects more poorly understood, misunderstood, misused, and outright abused, than the humble view....
2017-11-16 (first published: 2017-11-05)
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It’s All About The Joins
One of the most common mistakes I see made when creating tables (and I’ve been guilty of this myself too...
2017-10-29
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Welcome to The Monday Morning DBA
I started my IT career twenty years ago as a VB and C developer, wandered into C++ for a bit,...
2017-09-30
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Blogs
Using Flyway Prepare for State-Based Deployments
By Steve Jones
One of the neat enhancements made to Flyway was the addition of state-based workflows...
How I Migrated to Azure PostgreSQL Flex from Single Server
I did a couple of posts previously on dumping/restoring Azure PostgreSQL databases and also...
Have a Plan for Your Personal Downtime
By Brian Kelley
Most of us know that spending a lot of time on social media and...
Forums
Resolving Access Denied Errors During SQL Server Database Attachment
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The Lesser Used Functions
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SQL in an Azure VM Backup
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Question of the Day
SQL in an Azure VM Backup
If I use the Azure Backup service for automated backups of my SQL Servers in Azure VMs, how often can I configure log backups? (as of Dec 2024)
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