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The Future of Auditing
I was reading Captain’s Share the other day and enjoying a quiet afternoon at home. It’s a science fiction book about one man’s journey in the future as a captain of a space freighter. It’s an interesting series from Nathan Lowell that … Continue reading
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Tagged administration, auditing, security, sql server
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It Still Happens – Full Transaction Log
Probably the most often asked question on SSC is about full transaction logs, and often full disks. It happened again recently. I don’t have an exact count of threads, but rough searches show this to have 70,000+ results, when most … Continue reading
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The Need for Tape
This editorial was originally published on Mar 26, 2009. It is being re-run as Steve is away at DevConnections. One of our SQLServerCentral authors sent me this post, which I found to be pretty amazing. Apparently hackers broke into a backup server at … Continue reading
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Scripting
One of the directions in which Red Gate Software is to build more tools and utilities that all of you can use for working in cloud environments. We aren’t ignoring the desktop tools like SQL Compare and Prompt (v6, yeah!) that you’ve come to appreciate and depend … Continue reading
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