Tag Archives: Database Weekly

Intelligence from Data

Posted on October 1, 2016 by way0utwest

There is an incredible amount of data in the world, and all that data is changing the way industries work. That’s the opening to a keynote talk from Jim McHugh at the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference. The talk is short, … Continue reading →

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Analyzing Data in Real Time

Posted on September 21, 2016 by way0utwest

A few years ago I was listening to a presentation from Microsoft where they touted a customer that had real time analytics with Analysis Services. Since my exposure had been that cubes needed to be processed, a resource intensive process, … Continue reading →

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Why We Need Backups First

Posted on September 17, 2016 by way0utwest

One of the things I show when I talk about TDE is that the backup of the certificate is very important. When you create a certificate, SQL Server warns you right away that a backup of the certificate is needed. … Continue reading →

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Paying for Data

Posted on June 11, 2016 by way0utwest

Would you recommend your organization pay a ransom to get the key to decrypt data that’s become encrypted on your database systems? What if the data were encrypted in backups going back two weeks? It’s an interesting question, and one … Continue reading →

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