Introduction to STRING_SPLIT function in SQL
This article explains the T-SQL function STRING_SPLIT() and demonstrates a creative use for it.
2020-03-02
10,381 reads
Articles
Get Your Scalar UDFs to Run Faster Without Code Changes
Microsoft has added a group of features called Intelligent Query Processing to SQL Server 2017 and 2019. In this article, Greg Larsen explains one of the features, Scalar UDF Inlining.
2020-03-02
New release: Mask SQL Server data 3x faster with Data Masker 7
In the latest version of Data Masker for SQL Server, it’s now much easier to rapidly identify sensitive data that needs masking, set up appropriate rules, see which masking rules are applied to which column, and locate what sensitive data you've yet to mask.
We’ve also improved the performance of commonly used masking rules, which lets you run masking operations 3 times faster.
2020-03-02
Mean Median Mode using SQL and DAX
This article explains how to calculate the important statistical functions, MEAN, MEDIAN, and MODE, in both T-SQL and DAX.
2020-02-28
34,279 reads
Enterprise Insights from the 2020 State of Database DevOps report
17% of Enterprise respondents in this year's State of Database DevOps survey reported that DevOps has been adopted across all projects in their organization. This year’s State of Database DevOps report gave us some great insights into the landscape of Database DevOps. Kendra Little walks us through those insights specific to Enterprise organizations.
2020-02-28
Introduction to Azure SQL Database Auto-Failover Groups
Azure SQL Database offers a number of resiliency features that deliver a mix of high availability and disaster recovery capabilities
2020-02-28
New: 2020 State of Database DevOps report
Now in it’s 4th year, the State of Database DevOps report continues to deliver valuable insights. In the report, you will learn multiple tactics to improve the quality of database code deployment, whether it is by changing the type of environment used for development, enhancing your code review practices, or your change management/approval practices.
2020-02-28 (first published: 2020-02-10)
2020-02-27
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But the Database Worked in Development! Checking for Duplicates
As developers should not have access to production data, it’s possible that duplicate values can sneak in during migrations. In this article of the series, Phil Factor demonstrates a way to check for duplicates when unique constraints are disabled.
2020-02-27
Memory-Optimized TempDB Metadata in SQL Server 2019
For as long as I have worked with SQL Server, and on almost every system I've ever managed, tempdb has been a bottleneck in one way or another.
2020-02-26
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Backup to Immutable Storage
In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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