Patching, we all know how important it is, for those of us with a presence on prem that is, or even SQL on Azure VM, without the correct...

Ah, SQL, CPUs and licenses... you've got to love it. Our SQL servers have specific loads, patterns and resource requirements. We've...

Monitoring can be expensive...really expensive. And while there are open source options available (shameless self promotion here for a...

Ah, the elderly parent, the old warhorse SQL Server Reporting Services, and the young(ish) upstart Power BI and its On Premises Data...

This is part 3 in the SQL Always Encrypted mini series... Unfortunately, the gotchas continue, as it isn't straight forward when using...

In this episode, we're going to look into how we can read that Always Encrypted data (On Prem, with the Key secured by Azure Key Vault),...

Those DBAs eh? You just can't trust 'em.... Well, we know that statement is ridiculous, but there are so many cases where data in a SQL...

Maybe not the best entry in the franchise, but this is another one of those configuration options that has been around forever, but very...

Again, this is another one of those little bits of functionality that has been present since year dot. Unfortunately, it seems to be...

This is a finger pointing situation that i've witnessed in the past regarding native SQL Auditing, and the potential for edge case false...