Interviews and Oranges

What a great topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Kendra Little https://littlekendra.com/2017/08/01/tsql-tuesday-93-interviewing-patterns-anti-patterns/

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The topic being: Interviewing Patterns and Anti-Patterns. I have had MANY (50 +) interviews over time with a lot of failures, so what have I learnt?

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SQL Server Rookie Mistakes

A quick elementary post which is my entry to this months’ T-SQL Tuesday entry hosted by a good friend SQLDoubleG http://www.sqldoubleg.com/2017/07/03/tsql2sday-92-lessons-learned-the-hard-way/.

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We are here to talk about mistakes we used to make. There is one mistake that I am going to discuss and is something that I used to do 10 years ago, obviously I do not do this anymore.

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Using SQL Server Diagnostics (Preview)

Update – December 2020 – Feature no longer supported by Microsoft. It was good while it lasted.

I was VERY excited when I read the following tweet (below) from Bob Ward regarding SQL Server Diagnostics capability. What is it you are asking? It is an extension to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) where it gives you the ability to Upload / Analyse dump files created by SQL Server.

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SQL Server TDE – Is TempDB Encrypted?

A really quick one today, something that made me think for a minute and I thought it might make others think too. So you have enabled TDE  – Transparent Data Encryption (you can see these previous posts here: https://blobeater.blog/?s=tde&submit=Search) on your SQL Server database and in the back of your mind you know TempDB gets encrypted too.

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