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T-SQL Tuesday #85–Cross Version Restores

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time, and this month Ken Fisher hosts. His topic is backups, and while I’m sure there will be plenty of views on backups, I wanted to touch base on a relatively simple item. This is the monthly … Continue reading

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The Biggest Data Breech (For Now)

I keep reading the words “the largest data breach in history” in a variety of stories. In fact, given the tremendous growth of data acquisition, I’m guessing that this headline will continue to repeat itself over and over. I think … Continue reading

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Cloud Security Issues

Bruce Schneier wrote a three part series (part 1, part 2, part 3) on cloud computing recently, part of a debate at the Economist. It’s a general look at the cloud from a few perspectives, and I think the thoughts are interesting. Whether … Continue reading

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Normalizing Performance

This week I ran across a post from Glenn Berry on hardware performance that I thought framed the concept of performance value well. In the post, Glenn talks about the latest TPC-E benchmark and the SQL Server performance values that … Continue reading

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