For years we have been able to use Transparent Data Encryption or TDE to encrypt our database files on SQL Server Enterprise Edition. This ability was the only reason many clients needed to upgrade from Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition. SQL Server 2019 includes TDE as a Standard Edition feature. No longer do you need to shell out the extra …

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I was working with a client just the other day that has several SQL Server 2000 servers still in mission critical production environments, and a couple of newer versions of SQL Server 2005, 2016, 2019. Not often do I admit that I do still occasionally work on SQL Server 2000, and given that we are now in 2022, that makes …

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Today Microsoft released SQL Server 2019 CU 15 (KB 5008996) If you need help updating and patching your SQL Server, or upgrading to a new version of SQL Server Stedman Solutions can help. With the amount of ransomware we are seeing, it is becoming more important than ever to apply any updates that contain security patches. Here are the latest …

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