Rotating Expired SQL Server TDE Certificates
In general, SQL Server TDE certificates will expire at some point. In SQL Server, if we have setup TDE using...
2019-02-08 (first published: 2019-01-23)
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WaterOx SQL
Big Changes for WaterOx Consulting
March of 2019 would have marked that start of the 8th year of WaterOx Consulting, Inc. running. That isn’t going...
2019-01-10
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Stretch Databases for the Budget Poor DBA
The post Stretch Databases for the Budget Poor DBA appeared first on WaterOx Consulting.
2018-03-28
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Upcoming Content
This is the reality of learning newer tech somewhat in depth and working with it. What this series of posts...
2017-07-24
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Upcoming Content
This is the reality of learning newer tech somewhat in depth and working with it. What this series of posts...
2017-07-24
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Conditionally Retry a Failed Job
We have jobs that run in the early morning to load data to our data warehouses and other systems, and...
2017-07-03 (first published: 2017-06-23)
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SQL Security Email Course
Today I am very excited to announce that I have (finally!) launched my email course covering the basics of SQL...
2017-04-19
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Identify SQL Accounts Without Password Policy Enforced
When ‘Enforce Password Policy’ for SQL Server logins is turned off, you can make your password anything you want! Hooray!...
2017-03-02
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Better SQL Agent Job Alerts
They kinda suck. I mean it is nice that we have the option for the SQL Agent to tell us...
2017-02-28 (first published: 2017-02-23)
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PowerShell -> Identify all SysAdmins in your SQL Server
No pressure. None whatsoever. There is just an Auditor standing behind you waiting for you to pull a list of...
2016-10-06 (first published: 2016-09-29)
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Blogs
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...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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