Now that the GDPR has gone into effect, many are wondering what will happen in the United States. California is the first state to enact similar legislation, called the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). In this article, William Brewer explains the history of the law, what it means for companies doing business with California residents, and how it compares to the GDPR.
2018-10-11
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Check out this stored procedure sp_rows to get a listing of space used and rows counts for your SQL Server database tables.
2018-10-10
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When a 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. Greg Larsen shows you how to find all database files that have their max_size set.
2018-10-09
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Power BI Desktop is typically used to create reports that will eventually be published to Power BI Services where dashboards can be built. Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to publish reports from Power BI Desktop to the Power BI Service. Once published, the visualizations can be filtered, drilled into, or pinned to a dashboard.
2018-10-08
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In my T-SQL code I always use set based operations. I have been told these types of operations are what SQL Server is designed to process and it should be quicker than serial processing. I know cursors exist but I am not sure how to use them..
2018-10-08
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The name of the Agent job isn't necessarily what it does, and just because your'e not getting failure emails doesn't mean the job is working.
2018-10-05
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In this tip we look at how to insert missing values for an identity column using the SET IDENTITY_INSERT command.
2018-10-04
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Azure Storage can store many types of data, from NoSQL tables to VHDs. In this article, Supriya Pande explains how to work with Azure Storage Explorer, a tool that makes it easy to manage storage in Azure. She also provides an example of using the Azure Storage .NET SDK to upload files.
2018-10-04
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In this tip look at the undocumented command DBCC WRITEPAGE to corrupt a SQL Server database and then use the command to undo the corruption.
2018-10-03
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Join Anoop Kumar as he discusses two modern design patterns to handle Advanced Analytics on big data, and Real time analytics.
2018-10-02
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