Tag Archives: sql server

Regular Audit Analysis

Posted on June 24, 2011 by way0utwest

I was reading over a digital supplement that I received from Dark Reading recently, which details some of the issues in the Epsilon, Gawker Media, and a few other data breaches. It was light on details, but there were some … Continue reading →

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The Age of Software

Posted on June 23, 2011 by way0utwest

Does the age of software matter? It’s an interesting question and one which recently came to my attention after a blog post by Dan Jones. Dan works on the SQL Server team and posted a note that the SQL 11 … Continue reading →

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Data Compression in SQL Server

Posted on June 21, 2011 by way0utwest

Do you know much about data compression? It seems that quite a few people I meet don’t really understand how it works, or what the benefits are. I heard about compression first hand from Sunil Agarwal a few years back … Continue reading →

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Archiving

Posted on June 20, 2011 by way0utwest

Not many database systems get designed with a well thought out archiving plan at the beginning of their lifecycle. In most cases that’s fine since few databases seem to gather enough data to require archiving, and if there is extra … Continue reading →

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