A tip looking at a one time procedure which we can follow to downgrade the database from a higher version (SQL Server 2012) of SQL Server to a lower version (SQL Server 2008 R2) of SQL Server.
2018-07-25
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2018-07-24
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How many times have you had a programmer come to you and say they want you (the DBA) to restore their database to sometime prior to when they accidentally corrupted it? If you are doing FULL transaction logging you can do a point in time recovery to restore the database to just prior to when the corruption occurred. But in order to do that you need to know exactly when the programmer corrupted the data, which in a lot of cases is not known down to the second.
2018-07-24
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Dynamic SQL allows stored procedures to “write” or dynamically generate their SQL statements. The most common use case for dynamic SQL is stored procedures with optional parameters in the WHERE clause.
2018-07-24
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You may need to drop and recreate your certificates after migrating from SQL 2012 to SQL 2016+
2018-07-23
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The GDPR is in full effect but meeting the requirements may still be confusing for many companies. In this article, William Brewer discusses what is needed to ensure compliance, including when a Data Protection Impact Assessment is required. He also explains the Data Protection Officer role.
2018-07-23
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In this tip we look at the steps you can follow to change the collation for an Azure SQL Database.
2018-07-23
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Some SQL migrations require keeping the server name, instance name, IP, and port number. Geoff Ruble shares some notes on his recent experience with a SQL Server migration.
2018-07-20 (first published: 2015-10-12)
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2018-07-20
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This short article shows a simple example of how to segment data into deciles
2018-07-19
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True or False: Tables with a SPARSE column consume more space than regular columns if most values are NOT NULL.
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