Category Archives: Editorial

Deploying SQL Server Automatically

Posted on July 31, 2021 by way0utwest

I’ve had to install SQL Server many times over the years. Often it has felt that most of these installs were one-offs, a dev server, a new QA instance, a production server for a brand new application. A few times … Continue reading →

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Do You Have ALL the YAML?

Posted on July 26, 2021 by way0utwest

YAML is a file format, and as with many formats, some of us love them and some of us hate them.  It seems to be better than XML in many ways, and perhaps easier to deal with the JSON. It … Continue reading →

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How Often Do You Patch?

Posted on July 23, 2021 by way0utwest

I saw two things recently. First, CU25 for SQL Server 2017 was released. I realized that I was CU8 locally, so I had work to do. Second, I noticed that SQL Server 2016 fell out of mainstream support on 13 … Continue reading →

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The Danger of Management Access

Posted on July 21, 2021 by way0utwest

First we had the Solarwinds hack, and now we have a Kaseya ransomware epidemic. It seems the criminals are moving up the stack. We used to see physical attacks on tapes and keyboards, then we saw OS level attacks. Now … Continue reading →

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