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Mike got his start in computers in college after taking a class about Excel for an accounting major. After that class, he started taking more computer science courses and decided to change majors. After graduation, Mike took a job in Little Rock, AR as a Developer / DBA. The job was working with a .net 1.1 application, a SQL Server 2000 backend, and Microsoft Access/SSRS as the reporting tools. Mike quickly learned how much he enjoyed working with databases and has never looked back. The parts he enjoys most are helping people solve their pain points with data, whether that is helping with a performance problem or designing a new system to solve a particular need. He also enjoys automating work because it allows the person who was doing the work more time to focus on new business problems. Mike has worked with every major version of SQL Server since 2000, with the majority of his time spent on the 2008 R2, 2014, and 2016 releases of SQL Server.

What the SQL Server TDE Certificate Expiration Date Does (and does not) Mean

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What the SQL Server TDE Certificate Expiration Date Does (and does not) Mean

This post is part of our SQL Server security blog series, 30 SQL Server Security Checks in 30 Days. We’re publishing a new security check every day in the month of June. Visit our sp_CheckSecurity page to learn about our free SQL Server tool you can download and run to check your own server. Transparent … Read more

High Availability and Disaster Recovery With SQL Server Standard Edition

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There are many ways to setup High Availability and Disaster Recovery, most of which are focused on SQL Server Enterprise edition.  However, the licensing for Enterprise edition gets costly fast.  One less talked about approach to building a cost-effective HA/DR solution is building a failover cluster instance using SQL Server Standard with SIOS Datakeeper. SQL … Read more