The Enterprise Roadmap to Reducing Costs (While Increasing Value)

Every enterprise is now facing the same challenge: to do more with less in a demanding economic environment. They're expected to release value to customers sooner while at the same time controlling the costs of their infrastructures, retaining skilled staff, and reducing risk. What role does the database play in balancing this challenge? Read on to find out.

Connect to SQL Server with Python to Create Tables, Insert Data and Build Connection String

Data Masking in Principle

This is the first of two articles to describe the principles and practicalities of masking data in databases. It explains why an organization sometimes needs masked data, the various forms of masked data we can use, the sort of data that needs to be masked, and the potential pitfalls.

How to Use Any SQL Database in GO with GORM

ORMs (Object Relational Mappers) are tools (libraries, modules, packages) that provide the functionality for interacting with SQL databases. This article will look at how to use any SQL Database in GO with GORM.

Amazon EC2 | Creating a Connection to an Amazon RDS Instance

In a previous article, we showed how to expose an Amazon RDS instance to the public internet securely for direct access to the database. In this article we shall configure an Amazon EC2 instance for network access to an existing Amazon RDS instance. The purpose of this would be to make sure that if we deploy an application to this EC2 instance, communication from the client to the RDS instance would be smooth.

SQL Server 2022 Paid Editions Require a Licensing Key

For the final release of SQL Server 2022, Microsoft popped a surprise that wasn’t in the release candidates

Webinar | Database Monitoring: The ROI of Build vs. Buy

There are many things to consider when deciding whether to invest in a database monitoring tool or whether to use a homegrown solution. However, the business frequently wants to know one thing and one thing only: what’s the return on this investment (ROI)? In this webinar, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Grant Fritchey, is joined by our expert panel to share the pros and cons to building a monitoring system versus purchasing one.

Getting started with ROUND() and Its Use Cases

Learn the basics of the ROUND() function in this article.

A Real-world Implementation of Database DevOps: People, Processes, Tools

This series of articles describes a path you can take to transforming an existing, manual and error-prone database development and release process into an automated and reliable Database DevOps 'pipeline', starting here with an overview of what we set out to achieve, and the people, processes and tools involved.

SQL RAISERROR to Better Handle Errors

Learn how and why to use RAISERROR in your SQL Server code to be able to better handle errors that may occur during code execution.