Every organization must perform data governance. This requires planning, oversight, and control over the management, security, resilience and quality of data and over the use of data by the organization. In larger organizations, it can be a complex task. William Brewer explains what's involved.
2022-09-21
In this article, we look at how to set up Transparent Data Encryption for SQL Server and Oracle along with the differences and similarities.
2022-09-21
Learn how to build graph node and edge tables using Azure Data Studio in this step-by-step guide.
2022-09-19
This article isn’t about the act of lock escalation itself, which is already well documented and generally well understood. Some myths (like row locks escalating to page locks) persist, but challenging those yet again probably wouldn’t change much.
2022-09-19
If your database application requires 'static data' to function, then the best way to manage that data is using a view based on a derived table. This article demonstrates ways to create these views, depending on your RDBMS's capabilities, and how to build and manage them in development work, using Flyway and PowerShell.
2022-09-16
In this article, we look at several different examples of how to use the SQL WHERE clause to narrow down searches for data in a SQL Server table.
2022-09-16
Learn how to create SQL Server database tables, foreign keys, and create data to begin building a database to support application development.
2022-09-14
There and pros and cons to building a monitoring system versus purchasing one: in other words, the ROI of build vs. buy. In this blog post, Grant Fritchey discusses when you should build, and when you should buy.
2022-09-14
This article covers how to create multi-chart visualizations in Excel using data from SQL Server.
2022-09-09
Rollback scripts are designed to allow us to recover safely from a failed deployment that leaves the database in an indeterminate state. They must check exactly what needs to be reverted before doing so. If you work with an RDBMS that cannot support transaction DDL rollback they are vital. This article proposes a strategy where you create and test a rollback file, at the same time as the forward migration, and reuse it as a Flyway undo script.
2022-09-09
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