Review Minimum SQL Server Security Practices
In this tip we look at different things you should consider when developing your database systems to ensure you are also thinking about security best practices as well.
2019-01-02
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Articles
Generate a SSIS-package that reads from Twitter using Biml
Learn how to use Biml to create a SSIS-package with a Script component that can read from Twitter.
2019-01-01 (first published: 2016-04-28)
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Real-time performance monitoring for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
This article was co-authored by Dimitri Furman and Denzil Ribeiro Reviewed by: Danimir Ljepava, Borko Novakovic, Jovan Popovic, Rajesh Setlem, Mike Weiner Introduction In our ongoing engagements with the SQL DB Managed Instance preview customers a common requirement has been to monitor database workload performance in real time.
2019-01-01
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Update an Azure SQL Data Mart with ADLS files
In this tip we learn how to update the Azure SQL Data Mart in an automated way.
2019-01-01
1,758 reads
Cloning SQL Server Instances with Containers
Learn how containers and WinDocks can be used to quickly provision copies of databases.
2018-12-31
2,114 reads
How to Linux for SQL Server DBAs — Part 3
DBAs running SQL Server on Linux will not only need to understand SQL Server security well, they will also need to understand how security works on Linux. In this article, Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman walks you through several examples, explaining the permissions and ownership of files and directories in Linux.
2018-12-31
2,168 reads
Have Availability Groups Gotten Easier Lately?
2018 is coming to an end, and AGs have been out for 6 years. They're stable now, right?
2018-12-28
2,749 reads
Building a Collaborative Platform to Speed up Data Analysis
In this article, Feodor demonstrates the architecture, workflow, and some of the challenges of a collaborative platform (cloud foundation) for speeding up enterprises in their search for analytical power. He uses an example from the EA Billing solution, which was presented in the previous articles of the series.
2018-12-27
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Auto Generate NetBackup script to backup SQL Server databases
In this tip we look at how we can use SQL Server to auto generate a backup script for NetBackup to make sure we backup the required databases.
2018-12-26
1,876 reads
SQL Server 2019 Community Technical Preview (CTP) 2.1 is Available Now
Microsoft announced the release or CTP 2.1 for SQL Server 2019. This is the second CTP released for SQL Server 2019, and it has lots of new exciting features, like " UDF inlining". Read on to find out more!
2018-12-25
2,797 reads
Blogs
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
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