Managing Always Encrypted Locally Stored Certificates in PowerShell
Learn how you can automate the creation of the CML and CEK for Always Encrypted in SQL Server
2019-06-10
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Articles
Why DBAs Must Embrace DevOps
A good day for a database administrator (DBA) is a lot like a good airline flight. A lot of excitement in either situation is bad. In a perfect world, a DBA will be productive and not spending most of their time “putting out fires.” (And fires are never a good idea on a flight!)
2019-06-10
Parse Data from a Field Containing Multiple Values using CROSS APPLY
It is possible for a field in a character-delimited text file to contain a list of further-delimited values instead of the customary single value. This article demonstrates how to load such a file into a staging table, then use a CROSS APPLY query to parse the list of values into a related table.
2019-06-07 (first published: 2017-10-30)
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5 Questions to Ask When You Upgrade SQL Server
Whether you’re looking to go cutting-edge and hop on SQL Server 2019 as soon as it’s available, or whether you’re just trying to evacuate from SQL Server 2008 to anything that’s going to be supported after this summer, you’re probably doing upgrade projects. This is a good time to ask yourself 5 questions...
2019-06-07
SQL Server and R with dplyr Package Examples for mutate, transmute, summarise, group_by, pipe and filter
In this second part of this tip series we take a look at the dplyr package for R that can be used to query data using the R Language with SQL Server and build data visualizations.
2019-06-07
2019-06-06 (first published: 2018-01-04)
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Bloor scores SQL Provision 4.5 out of 5 for test data provisioning
In this independent review of SQL Provision, the Bloor analyst finds that SQL Provision’s combination of database cloning and data masking stands out with “clear advantages over competing approaches, such as data subsetting or synthetic data generation.”
2019-06-06 (first published: 2019-05-23)
SQL Server function to convert integer date to datetime format
In this tip we look at code you can use to convert an integer date into a datetime format. This is an issue you will face when working the history data for SQL Server Agent Jobs.
2019-06-06
Unit Testing, Databases, and You
As database changes are added to the DevOps pipeline, unit testing of those changes becomes crucial. In this article, Adam Hafner describes unit testing and how it applies to databases.
2019-06-06
Free eBook: Fundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Replication
Fundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Replication provides a hands-on introduction to SQL Server replication. The book introduces you to the technologies that make up replication, and then walks you through setting up different replication scenarios. When you've finished reading, you should be able to implement your own multi-server replication setup while following the principle of least privilege.
2019-06-05 (first published: 2014-02-26)
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