Always Encrypted is a highly-touted new feature of SQL Server 2016 that promises to make encryption simple to use and transparent to applications while still protecting the data both at rest and in [...]
Presentations
Dammit Jim! Dr McCoy’s Field Guide to system_health (and the default trace)
As DBAs, we are asked all sorts of impossible questions. Who dropped that important table last month? Why was everything slow last week? Who made that user a sysadmin? You’d have to be a [...]
Protecting Your Data with Encryption
We’ve all seen the recent news stories about companies whose data has been stolen by hackers. What was once a rare event has become all too common, and companies large and small are at risk. [...]
Extending Your Availability Group for Disaster Recovery
Did you know that SQL Server Availability Groups can be a great solution for disaster recovery? Availability groups have become well known for their high availability capabilities, and for good r [...]
Database Source Control Adoption Challenges and Opportunities
Source control is a way of life for developers – it’s a way of sharing code, of protecting our work, and of saving our bacon when things go wrong. So why aren’t you using it with your datab [...]