The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in effect in May of 2018. Data masking is one technique that can help your organization comply with this and other regulations. William Brewer answers those questions about data masking that you were too shy to ask.
2018-01-05
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Python is a very popular language used for many purposes including machine learning. SQL Server 2017 supports Python with its Machine Learning Services component. Robert Sheldon explains how to get started using Python in SQL Server in the first article of this series.
2018-01-04
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Not having instant file initialization turned on slows down the process of adding pages to your database, because prior to allocating the data pages to your database, SQL Server needs to zero out the newly allocated pages.
2018-01-03
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Jeffrey Yao explains how to generate backups based on the amount of data that has changed for differential and transaction log backups.
2018-01-02
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Erik writes a script to do what it says on the tin.
2018-01-01
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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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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
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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
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Brent demos a single query plan that asks for 2 identical indexes on the same table.
2017-12-26
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Ameena Lalani looks at cascading updates and deletes when using temporal tables in SQL Server.
2017-12-25
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