The 2010 MVP Summit took place last week on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. I arrived on Tuesday, barely making it out ahead of a snowstorm. I missed out on some sessions on Monday and Tuesday, having made my plans before any extra sessions were announced. When I got into town I couldn’t find any … Read more
I was spending some time recently looking over Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). TDE is a fairly straightforward concept: the data on disk is encrypted (data files, log files, backup files), but to the end user no special decryption method is necessary to query the data. If you have permissions to read the data (say, as … Read more
The voting poll is officially open for the DBA Survivor “Name That Caption Contest“. Head over to http://dbasurvivor.com and pick up to three of the five captions. The top three captions will go into the final round, which consists of me choosing the one I like best. Thanks to everyone that submitted entries. These five … Read more
The first round of the “Name That Caption” contest over at DBASurvivor.com will end this coming Friday, winner gets a copy of my upcoming book. Head over to http://dbasurvivor.com/?p=29 to learn more. We have had a fair number of entries to date and I already have my top five set aside for people to vote … Read more
The 2010 Microsoft MVP Summit is upon us. This will be my very first Summit and I am looking forward to connecting with a lot of other database professionals as well as members of the SQL team at Microsoft. I felt a Summit preview was in order and decided that the most fitting movie would … Read more
More than once I have had the need to recover the native backup file from within the compressed Litespeed backup file. Fortunately Quest provides an extractor utility in order to help with the process. Otherwise, you would be forced to do a restore followed by a native backup. If your database is of a considerable … Read more
