Tag Archives: Database Weekly

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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Install Cumulative Updates

Posted on May 1, 2016 by way0utwest

For years I haven’t recommended installing Cumulative Updates (CU) as they are released. The main reason is that Microsoft has had language associated with their CUs that say customers should not install a particular CU unless they are experiencing the … Continue reading →

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Power BI Week

Posted on February 20, 2016 by way0utwest

This past week was T-SQL Tuesday #75, with the topic of Power BI. There were some interesting posts, and we’ve included a few in this week’s newsletter. This was also the week where the winners of the Power BI report contest were announced, … Continue reading →

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Adios, IE

Posted on January 9, 2016 by way0utwest

The first browser I used on the Internet to find information was the text based lynx browser. This was quite an improvement (at the time) over Archive and Gopher. When Netscape released their Navigator browser for Windows, I abandoned those old tools, moving on to a … Continue reading →

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