Enterprise Edition customers enjoy the manageability and performance benefits offered by table partitioning, but this feature is not available in Standard Edition. Aaron Bertrand explains his idea for achieving at least some of partitioning's upsides on any edition.
2015-12-22
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The Data-lake is basically a large repository of data for 'big data' analytic workloads, held in its original format. The Azure Data Lake adds Data Lake Analytics, and Azure HDInsight. Although the tools are there for Big Data Analysis, it will require new skills to use, and a heightened attention to Data Governance if it is to appeal to the average enterprise. Rob Sheldon takes a look.
2015-12-21
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You make an example database, like NorthWind or WidgetDev in order to test out your deployment system and the next thing you know you're worrying about constraints, backup and security. Then you add an index to the production system and feel a pang of guilt. What would the Devs say? Somehow databases take on lives of their own, populated by the lost souls of users, Developers and DBAs. Has the Redgate DLM Team's practice Forex database somehow come alive?
2015-12-18
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Aaron Bertrand takes a look at the changes in store for In-Memory OLTP (the feature formerly known as "Hekaton").
2015-12-17
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Understanding backup and restore processes is essential for developers and DBAs to be more confident when dealing with uncommon situations and having the ability to suggest flexible solutions related to these processes. In this article, Sergey Gigoyan answers some key questions relating to backup and restore.
2015-12-16
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In SQL, you can express the logic of what you want to accomplish without spelling out the details of how the database should do it. Nowhere is this more powerful than in constraints. In this introduction to Declarative SQL, Joe Celko demonstrates how you can write portable code that performs well and executes some complex logic, merely by creating unique constraints.
2015-12-15
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With the introduction of SQL Server 2016 you now have a new way to encrypt columns called Always Encrypted. With Always Encrypted, data is encrypted at the application layer via ADO.NET. This means you can encrypt your confidential data with your .NET application prior to the data being sent across the network to SQL Server. In this article, Greg Larson explains his experience with exploring setting up a table that stores always encrypted data.
2015-12-14
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Integrating big data appliance solutions into a data warehouse requires preparation and forethought. DBAs and business data consumers must work together both to address the implementation issues above and to meet the needs of multiple business data consumers. Lockwood Lyon discusses the topic.
2015-12-11
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If it's deemed important to test application code as part of a CI process, the same must apply to the database. In this blog post, Jason Crease shows how to create a smooth process where you can build and deploy databases alongside your application code from within Jenkins with the SQL CI plugin.
2015-12-10
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Dan Holmes shows how you can create statistics exactly the way you want within the bounds of the 200 steps available.
2015-12-09
2,745 reads
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