Infragistics Reveal is a data visualization solution that simplifies the way you add embedded analytics and visualizations to your apps. Reveal supports connecting to OData APIs, but many enterprise APIs are not built using the OData standard. By combining Reveal with CData solutions, you can instantly build dynamic dashboards from live enterprise data sources like Salesforce. […]
2022-01-07
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Overview As we all know, data security is a never-ending battle. Every day, we hear of new data breaches. It's a hard problem, and there is no single solution, other than a defense in depth. Let's look at one of those defenses for databases: query control. Query control is a simple idea: most applications access […]
2022-01-07
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You can define policies for your Azure SQL Databases for security and meeting your organization’s standards. Management groups simplify policies over multiple subscriptions. Michael Wood explains Azure Policies and Management Groups.
2022-01-07
Use Flyway to run your database migrations, each time automatically creating a SQL Change Automation release object to provide object-level scripts and a build script for the new version, along with change reports and code analysis reports.
2022-01-07
Phil Factor presents a useful but slightly flawed 'table report' script as an adventure playground for exploring SQL Code analysis issues. He demonstrates use of the auto-fix feature, to arrive at a pristine script free from wavy green underlines.
2022-01-05
Developers can work with multiple range values at once using sp_sequence_get_range. Greg Larsen explains how to return multiple sequence numbers with sp_sequence_get_range.
2022-01-05
Problem Some time ago Argenis Fernandez(@DBArgenis) found and described a vulnerability that allows you to get into SQL Server with 'sa' rights. This method does not require a restart of the SQL Server service or the whole machine, the condition is a local administrator account on the server. Reminder SQL Server until 2008R2: Until SQL 2008R2, […]
2022-01-03
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Learn about the options to add users to Azure SQL Databases including SQL authentication logins, contained SQL users, contained Azure Active Directory users, mapped logins to users - including code examples you can copy and use immediately.
2022-01-03
A migration to Azure is stuck because of an encryption change in SQL Server. Learn how to get around this by using a certificate for encryption.
2021-12-31 (first published: 2019-12-05)
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The CData Query Federation Driver, allows you to federate and aggregate data across drivers as a single database connection. You can combine the Query Federation Driver with other CData JDBC Drivers or CData ADO.NET Providers to access all your SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources as if they were one database. You can query or update data from a single […]
2021-12-31
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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