Use Polybase to consume Oracle data from SQL Server on Linux 2019
Learn how to set up Polybase in containers to access an Oracle database.
2020-01-09
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Articles
Replace Model SQL Server Database with a User Database
In this tip we look at what happens if we replace the SQL Server model database with a regular user database
2020-01-09
2020-01-08
A tale of updating a legacy system bug
Even simple changes that don't look like they will affect anything often do.
2020-01-07
2,431 reads
Verify your SQL Server database backups
Introduction A popular joke about DBAs and database backups goes like this. There are two types of DBAs: DBAs that do backups DBAs that will do backups The joke is only stating the obvious – lack of database backups might be the end of a DBA career and/or the supported business. Unfortunately, that joke fails […]
2020-01-07
10,252 reads
SQL Server Security Best Practices for an Application Installed on SQL Server
In this article we look at the steps you can follow to create a secure and locked down instance of SQL Server to only be used by the intended application on the same machine.
2020-01-07
Setting up Management Studio for remote SQL Server
Learn how to configure SQL Server and Windows to allow others to connect to an instance remotely.
2020-01-06
137,139 reads
ASP.NET Core with GitOps: Orchestrating Your Containers with Kubernetes
Kubernetes can be used to deploy, scale, and manage containers. In this article, Mircea Oprea builds on the previous example in the series to show you how deploy your contains in the Elastic Kubernetes Service in AWS.
2020-01-06
SQL Server Unit Testing in Visual Studio
Unit test stored procedures in Visual Studio using an existing database or new SQL scripts
2020-01-03 (first published: 2017-05-01)
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SQL Server Best Practices for Data Quality
Accurate data is imperative for an organization to conduct cost effective decision making. Like everything else, change is constant for your data. There is a need to cleanse and validate data when received and on a regular basis. Unfortunately, cleansing and validating data is difficult with the native SQL Server toolset. How do we leverage the SQL Server tool set to achieve these goals?
2020-01-03
Blogs
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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