Configure SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption with PowerShell
Transparent Data Encryption is way to protect the data in your SQL Server database. This can be setup using T-SQL, SSMS and using PowerShell.
2020-02-20
Articles
Using SQL Prompt Code Snippets for Repetitive Tasks
Louis Davidson discovers the joy of using SQL Prompt code snippets to remove repetition from a variety of tasks, from inserting comment headers, to creating tables, to executing useful metadata queries.
2020-02-20
Quickly Find and Mask all Sensitive Data with Data Masker for SQL Server
Khie Biggs, a software developer on the Data Masker team at Redgate explains how a recent set of Data Masker improvements should make it significantly easier and faster to determine what data needs to be masked, implement a masking plan, and then to apply the masking operation, to protect sensitive and personal data in all the tables and columns of your SQL Server databases.
2020-02-19
SQL Server CASE Statement Example
While writing T-SQL code, sometimes it is necessary to divide the retrieved data into categories and perform specific operations based on their category.
2020-02-19
Database Normalization in SQL with Examples
Gouri Shankar provides an overview of normalizing a database.
2020-02-18
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General Purpose Tier for Azure SQL Database
Five years ago, there were a limited number of ways to deploy and use the SQL Server engine in the Azure Cloud. Today, there are many different services available.
2020-02-18
Record responses for the State of Database DevOps report
The fourth annual State of Database DevOps report is now available for download. Kendra Little announces the launch in her latest blog. Check out the first high level findings of the report here.
2020-02-18
Handling Aggregations on a Poorly Designed Database
When the database design is not great, you may have to write some creative queries to get what you need.
2020-02-17
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The Dangers of using Float or Real Datatypes
Floating point datatypes accommodate very big numbers but sacrifice precision. They are handy for some types of scientific calculations, but are dangerous when used more widely, because they can introduce big rounding errors.
2020-02-17
Using SQL Server RAND Function Deep Dive
Dr. Dallas Snider, a MSSQLTips author, mentioned that SQL Server RAND() function could generate random values uniformly distributed from 0 through 1, exclusive. He generated random numbers from the normal distribution with a specific mean and standard deviation.
2020-02-17
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
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On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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