There are frequent misunderstandings about Explicit Transactions, not limited to use of 'nested transactions'. This article attempts to explain by example many of the behaviors of this feature.
2018-07-13 (first published: 2015-12-30)
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Brent Ozar's session for the PASS DBA Fundamentals virtual chapter.
2018-07-13
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This short article shows a simple example of how to generate completely random sample output from a Dataset
2018-07-12
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Protecting data in SQL Server is not as simple as setting a few properties. While there are great security features in SQL Server, such as Transparent Data Encryption, production data may end up in places throughout the organization. In this article, Brian Kelley talks about the best ways to secure data using the concept of least privilege.
2018-07-12
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What is the most efficient way to modify XML values? To allow for precise modification of XML nodes and values, the XQuery XML query language employs an extension known as the XML Data Modification Language (DML). The XML DML uses the XML modify() method, which makes use of three operational keyword sets: insert, replace value of, and delete. Seth Delconte takes a closer look.
2018-07-11
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In this piece, we find out about a business issue that can occur when using key value pairs in your database to describe information about other entities.
2018-07-10
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In this article Anoop Kumar discusses Automatic Tuning, a new database feature that helps improve SQL Server query performance automatically.
2018-07-10
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SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is a toolset which provides an environment for you to carry out all your database design work in SQL Server. It can be used to build to build SQL Server relational databases.
2018-07-09
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In the second part of his series, Nicolas Prigent describes in detail how to automate the login process using PowerShell and Azure CLI. Nicolas also explains how to retrieve information about your Azure subscription.
2018-07-09
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If you can understand the data model then you can understand the intent of the application developers.
2018-07-06 (first published: 2016-01-26)
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By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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