Upcoming Speaking Engagements

I've got a few speaking engagements on my list coming up over the next month and a half: On Tuesday, May 17th, I will be speaking at the Triangle SQL Server Users Group on the wide world of data platforms. On Saturday, May 21st, I will be at SQL Saturday Atlanta talking about integrating Hadoop and…

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TIL: The VSS Writer

I'm working on a presentation for July involving security, and got to the section in which I discussed turning of unneeded services.  I noticed the VSS Writer and realized, I didn't actually know what it did... One trip to MSDN later, I learned that the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) writer allows third-party applications to snapshot and copy…