William Brewer explains how to make data governance a continuous organizational activity, based on well-established standards and practices, rather than a knee-jerk response, and which skills and tools will help you achieve compliance, including SQL Data Catalog for discovery and classification of data held in SQL Server.
2020-12-16
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.
2020-12-16 (first published: 2014-02-26)
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This article explains how to get started with PostgreSQL on AWS.
2020-12-15
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Become the captain of your SQL Prompt ship by embarking on a voyage of discovery through the hidden treasures of the tool. You'll uncover features of the unknown that will enable you to write, format, analyze and refactor your SQL effortlessly. Join this webinar on December 16th to find out more.
2020-12-15
To prevent data change anomalies, a database should be normalized. Did you know that there are 10 normal forms? In this article, Joe Celko reviews normalizing databases including commonly used normal forms.
2020-12-15
This is the eighth article in a series on the basics of using Git. The other articles in the series are: Basic Git for DBAs: Getting Started with Git Basic Git for DBAs: Sharing Files Through GitHub Basic Git for DBAs: the Basics of Branches Basic Git for DBAs: Making Changes in GitHub Basic Git […]
2020-12-14
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Email based validation is more than just a simple RFC check, this is where Melissa's Global Email Verification with a web-based API and SSIS delivers valuable data to SQL Server Professionals.
2020-12-14
A data catalog allows an organization to discover and record the facts about its data, where that data is held and how it used. William Brewer explains the details.
2020-12-14
Continued analysis of index architecture with revised clustered index. Part 2 of Column Order Indexes
2020-12-11 (first published: 2019-04-24)
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Phil Factor's take on the best ways to reverse or accelerate your way out of the problems caused by a failed database update.
2020-12-11
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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