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Update: This post was originally published on March 8th, 2019 and a lot of things have changed over the last 2-3 years. Lots of things. However, ironically, I’m headed off to SQL Bits again for their 2022 Conference and thought it’d be a good time to update this list of […]
In less than two weeks, we will mark the start of the PASS 2019 Summit. The annual conference of fellow data nerds, SQL Server geeks, family and friends. It is a week that many of us often look forward to. As we ramp up to this event, you will find […]
I have a client that resides in the Azure data platform arena, focusing mainly on Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Azure SQL DB. They have a decent landscape of Azure resources and currently utilize failover groups within SQL DB to facilitate high availability. Under the covers, failover groups are […]
Let’s be honest here, data security is really important to me. Some people probably think that I go to extremes to ensure that my data as well as my customers data is secured. With that, sometime ago, I wrote a blog post on utilizing a VPN server that I built […]
A look on how I am using extended events to monitor which SQL logins are authenticating to the sql instance.