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if your SSD is getting hung up, depending on the cost, it might be charper to RAID 0 a couple of cheap SATA3 SSDS than use a PCIE SSD....

My home lab has been invaluable over the years, for all sorts of reasons. One of my favorite reasons is to "proof of concept" a task I may need to...

This was a huge help. It solved my problem.

How is this different than Password Safe? Just wondering if I'm missing something. I sync through dropbox, but the safe itself is encrypted on my machines/devices and decrypted there as...

I use PasswordSafe for work and like it. For home, though, I wanted something that could sync across devices as well as provide an offsite backup. I was very hesitant...

I occasionally experience similar issues when backing up to a network share. When this occurs I'll run RESTORE HEADERONLY, RESTORE VERIFYONLY, then I'll restore it to another system and run...

Regarding topics I'm interested in...

After working with SS for almost 10 years, I find myself in the middle of my career, knowing enough to solve the problems I face and...

No, I never found a good solution for rotating keys. I've scoured the intertubes and can barely find any discussion of how folks handle it. This leads me to one...

For those of us that find things like password length interesting, have a look at the page below. This guy is a great security researcher and this is an super...

In my last position as DBA, I used PasswordSafe to generate / store complex passwords. In the "Notes" section I would also include who requested it, when, and what server...

FWIW, I appreciated the article on Amazon's offering. Marketing or not, I enjoy reading about anything SQL Server related. I do a lot of reading on my own to follow...

My guess is the timeout is not the result of an actual deadlock. Instead, it is just a *regular* blocking condition that is now taking longer than expected.

Try setting the...

Thanks for the reply Travis.

I don't think we're talking about the same thing. It looks like you're referring to TDE. I was referring to column level encryption. I'm not...

At the risk of veering slightly off topic, why backup the keys and certificates?

I have found it much easier to store the script used to create the keys rather than...

My previous job where I was responsible for such things...

Production servers were rebooted the last Thursday of every month at 4 am so Windows updates could be installed. So the...