Can you prevent deletes and inserts without a WHERE clause from running?
Erik writes a script to do what it says on the tin.
2018-01-01
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Articles
Questions About Amazon Data Migration Service (AWS DMS) That You Were Too Shy to Ask
Can you imagine it? You are in a group of smart database people, and they are debating the finer points about AWS DMS, and you don't even know what the letters stand for. You just feel too shy to ask those basic questions that seem ridiculous once you're up to speed. Laerte Junior answers all the questions you need answers for when facing the prospect of getting familiar with Amazon's useful Database Migration Service.
2017-12-29
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Quickly Restricting Database Access
There may be times when you need to perform maintenance against a database that requires you to keep normal database users from connecting to your database while the maintenance is being performed. You want to stop users from connecting right away, but you want the database to be in a state that you can perform maintenance.
2017-12-28
5,508 reads
Current State of the NewSQL/NoSQL Cloud Arena
Choosing the right data platform is not an easy task. Warner Chaves compares the capabilities of the big three Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, Microsoft’s Cosmos DB, Google’s Cloud Spanner, and Amazon’s DynamoDB, to help you make the right choice for your application.
2017-12-27
3,064 reads
Azure DWH part 22: Dynamic Management Views
The DMV are very effective and important to administer ASDWH. In this article we will show some important DMVs.
2017-12-26
935 reads
Query Plan Oddities: Two Identical Missing Indexes
Brent demos a single query plan that asks for 2 identical indexes on the same table.
2017-12-26
3,142 reads
The Case of the Shrinking CFO, err Database
Shrink SQL Server databases quickly and with virtually no contention.
2017-12-25 (first published: 2015-08-17)
4,377 reads
Why Haven’t You Upgraded SQL Server?
Kathi Kellenberger wonders what's keeping your business from upgrading.
2017-12-25
82 reads
Cascading Update and Delete for SQL Server 2017 Temporal Tables
Ameena Lalani looks at cascading updates and deletes when using temporal tables in SQL Server.
2017-12-25
3,228 reads
Securing Reporting Services Reports
Learn how you can get the userid of someone connected to Reporting Services and use that information to determine if they can view the report.
2017-12-22 (first published: 2010-05-18)
8,299 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
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Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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