Every DBA needs to appropriately manage database growth. No DBA wants an application to fail because the database is out of space. A database can run out of space a number of different ways. One of those ways is to set the MAXSIZE of a database. When the database grows to the MAXSIZE the database will not grow anymore and if someone tries to add more rows they will get an error saying the database is full.
2018-06-19
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Will there be a fair balance between the coming generations of technology and the human workforce? Here is a list of industries that may not think yes.
2018-06-18
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In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft have implemented a strong security concept called Shielded Virtual Machines. Shielded VMs have been improved in the Windows Server 2019 release. In the second part of this series, Nicolas describes what Shielded Virtual Machines are and how to configure them using PowerShell.
2018-06-18
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Describes the idle connection resiliency feature, which allows ODBC and SqlClient data access applications to maintain their connections to SQL Server 2014 or an Azure SQL Database.
2018-06-18
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Comparison of the new methods of splitting strings in SQL Server 2016 to the tried and true methods
2018-06-15 (first published: 2016-04-12)
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Brent shows what Perfmon counter to watch after your SQL Server restarts.
2018-06-15
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A basic introduction for developers (or anyone) about reading the metadata of a SQL Server database from a .Net application.
2018-06-14
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Its possible to use some comparable expressions to a full regular expression library for matching certain patterns with T-SQL using the like operator. This tutorial uses these expressions for filtering price phrases involving alphabetic, numeric, and special characters
2018-06-14
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Data governance must be included in DevOps practices. William Brewer explains how to define business policies and standards to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and bring data governance to all aspects of continuous delivery.
2018-06-13
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An efficient and reliable method for reading CSV files with variable columns.
2018-06-12
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When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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