T-SQL Decommenter Part IV
Examination of the comprehensive test suite for the T-SQL Decommenter, along with explanation of the modifications made to produce the production version.
2018-11-29
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Articles
Meeting Preparation for SQL Server Projects
Learn how to prepare for technical meetings including knowing your environment, being calm, business values, solution focus and more.
2018-11-29
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SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are two different approaches, with their own advantages and limitations, for making Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL Server) available and maintaining MS SQL Server databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
2018-11-28
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Redgate acknowledged as a representative vendor in Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Data Masking
Data masking really has come of age. Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Data Masking has just been published and predicts that the global enterprise use of data masking (DM) or similar de-identification techniques will rise to 40%, an increase from 15% in 2017. And Redgate is acknowledged in the Guide as a representative vendor for Data Masking.
2018-11-27 (first published: 2018-10-30)
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SQL Server Auditing for HIPAA and SOX – Part 4
Regulations may require that you audit exactly who does what in your databases. Robert Sheldon explains how SQL Server can help you meet those requirements with its built-in auditing capabilities.
2018-11-27
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Data Migration Assistant tool for Azure SQL DB/Azure VM Assessment
Data Migration Assistant (DMA) to Check for SQL Server Compatibility Issues and Perform assessment when Migrating to Azure SQL Database or to SQL Server on an Azure Virtual machine.
2018-11-26
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Monitoring Azure Health Status Using Azure Portal - Part 1
In this tip we look at how you can monitor Azure health to know if there are any issues that may interupt your services running on Azure.
2018-11-26
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Soundex - Experiments with SQLCLR Part 3
Acknowledging fundamental design flaws lead to a more flexible, maintainable phonetic framework
2018-11-23 (first published: 2015-08-27)
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How Check Constraints MIGHT Improve Your Queries and Missing Index Requests
In theory, you get better execution plans when SQL Server understands the contents of your tables. In practice, well, it's hit or miss.
2018-11-23
3,977 reads
Nasty Fast N-Grams (Part 1): Character-Level Unigrams
An article about tally tables, N-Grams and the fastest character-level N-Grams function available today for SQL Server.
2018-11-22 (first published: 2016-06-23)
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Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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