Monthly Archives: April 2014

One Database to Rule Them All

This is what you build to juggle 6,000 tweets a second. That’s the headline that caught my eye and it’s about the challenges of Twitter and the data that they handle. Twitter definitely has a tough problem, one that few … Continue reading

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FileTable–Adding a file to a folder

At my Filestream/Filetable talk yesterday at SQL Intersection, someone asked me about programmatically adding a file to a Filetable. Easy enough, I thought, since I’d seen someone do this in .NET and was thinking this has to be simple. Turns … Continue reading

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Nothing Scheduled

As of right now, my United account has no flights booked. My Hilton Honors account has no hotel rooms reserved. My National account has no car rentals to pick up. And I have nothing scheduled for the rest of 2014. … Continue reading

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High Performance Encryption

It is becoming more and more important to protect your data from anyone that should not access it, including the DBA. Learn how you can use column level encryption as well as TDE to protect your data files, with minimal … Continue reading

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