A customer has a database that is already set up in a SQL Server Availability Group. Since this database hosts sensitive data, there is a need to encrypt the primary and all secondary replicas of the data. In this article, we will walk through how this can be done.
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When a SQL Server Express-based factory app started crawling, the culprit wasn’t hardware or network — it was a decades-old WHILE loop migrated from C/C++ to SQL. This real-world story breaks down how procedural habits, memory grants, and lack of window functions nearly derailed a production floor.
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Overview In this article, we will understand how we can connect to PostgreSQL using Node.js application. We will start with setting up PostgreSQL in our local system and perform basic CRUD operations to interact with the PostgreSQL database. Prerequisites To start with this, we need the following conditions to be met: Windows machine (or any […]
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Taming Resource Hogs: Using SQL Server Resource Governor to Restrict User Group Consumption As a SQL Server professional, I've often encountered situations where a single, poorly written query or a resource-intensive application threatened to cripple the entire database server. Performance bottlenecks, unexpected slowdowns, and user complaints become the norm, making your life as a DBA […]
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Fellow SQL Server professionals, I wanted to share some insights and start a discussion about the database design challenges we face when implementing Content Moderation Services in enterprise applications. As more organizations build user-generated content platforms, the backend data architecture becomes critical for efficient moderation workflows. Database Design Challenges for Content Moderation Services Performance at […]
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This article describes the process to create a read-scale cross-platform SQL Server Availability Group where the primary is Linux and the secondary is Windows.
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I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams;See possible answers