HIPAA and Database Administration – Part 2
HIPAA was signed into law in the United States in 1996. In this article, Robert Sheldon discusses how the act affects the day-to-day responsibilities of database administrators.
2018-11-01
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Articles
SSIS Basics: Data cleansing using derived columns
On this article I will show you how to perform a basic data cleansing using the derived column data transformation
2018-10-30
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SQL Server 2019 is Here
On Monday, Sep 24, 2018, at the Ignite 2018 conference, Microsoft announced the first public preview of SQL Server 2019 (community technical preview (CTP) release of SQL Server 2.0).This new release of SQL Server is packed with many new features to improve performance, integrate your increasing volumes of corporate data, beef up security, and more.
2018-10-30
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Get the Error Column Name in SSIS
This article will show how you can get the column name for error rows in an SSIS 2016 Data Flow task.
2018-10-29
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Extended Events Workbench
The Extended Events (or XEvents) feature has been part of SQL Server since 2008, but many database professionals struggle to get started using it. In this article, Phil Factor demonstrates several useful Extended Event sessions that measure just one thing in each. He then provides the code necessary to parse the resulting XML into something you can use.
2018-10-29
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The New Lightweight Query Plan Profile Hint
SQL Server 2016 & 2017 enable a new way to get query performance metrics live via Extended Events.
2018-10-26
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Always On - Endpoint Ownership
Whoever creates an AlwaysOn group is, by default, the owner of the endpoint. This is generally not a problem…unless that person leaves the company and you need to delete the login.
2018-10-25
15,547 reads
Generate HTML Formatted Email of SQL Server Database Consistency Check Errors
In this tip we look at to create a SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB errors email formatted in an HTML table. This will report any errors for all of your databases on the server.
2018-10-24
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Posting SQL Server notifications to Slack
Learn how you can post notifications from SQL Server directly to a Slack channel.
2018-10-23
2,488 reads
Scheduling SQL Server Tasks on Linux
In this tip we look at how to schedule SQL Server tasks on Linux servers using Cron.
2018-10-23
2,090 reads
Blogs
Deploying an Updated Model with SQL Compare 16
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Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022
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Adding and Dropping Columns II
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Adding and Dropping Columns II
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers