March of 2019 would have marked that start of the 8th year of WaterOx Consulting, Inc. running. That isn’t going to happen. I have been thinking hard for the last year about what to do when it comes to the consulting/incorporated side of my SQL life and have come to the not easy decision that WaterOx Consulting, Inc. as a …
In general, SQL Server TDE certificates will expire at some point. In SQL Server, if we have setup TDE using SQL certificates we may have reached a point in time when the cert has expired. Maybe we haven’t. Maybe we don’t even know. We can check quickly to see if our TDE certs are close to expiring or perhaps already …
SQL Server’s stretch database is a feature that a lot of people liked and were excited about when Microsoft announced it.
Stretch databases were going to provide “Cost-effective” availability for cold data, and unlike typical cold data storage, our data would always be online and available to query.
