I am Dedicated Agile champion, Database Manager and Solutions Architect with two decades of experience in improving database functionality, diagnosing problems, building successful project teams, and improving SDLC and business processes.

I love data and databases and the challenge that comes with designing solutions. This blog is an attempt to share my knowledge with those who are interested.

Automating CRUD procedures generation using T-SQL (enhanced).

by faiggarayev

SQL Design Patterns

In this post I will describe the helper procedure that based on metadata generates numerous database objects around views and...

2019-01-03

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Contextual View Part II or how to hide sensitive data

by faiggarayev

SQL Design Patterns

In this article I continue to explore the ways to secure the data via contextual views and describe the technique...

2018-10-18

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Pagination pattern or how to fetch a large dataset for a web report.

by faiggarayev

SQL Design Patterns

In this post we will discuss how to fetch data from a large dataset for web applications using pagination technique....

2018-10-17

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Lookup. Foreign Key Constraint vs Check Constraint

by faiggarayev

SQL Design Patterns

This post helps in deciding between choosing foreign key and check constraints in case we need to constraint the data...

2018-10-16

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Decision tree on the pattern of choosing how to pass data to a procedure

by faiggarayev

SQL Design Patterns

We are often required to pass the data between different database procedures and functions. In this post I will review...

2018-09-06

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How to pass data between procedures using temp tables.

by faiggarayev

SQL Design Patterns

In this post I will show how in some cases we can split a long procedure to a small and...

2018-05-23

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Helper procedure to dynamically execute list of statements

by faiggarayev

SQL Design Patterns

I try to avoid dynamic SQL as much as possible and consider it as a necessary evil. However, in some...

2018-05-21 (first published: 2018-05-09)

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Helper function to convert binary to decimal and back

by faiggarayev

SQL Design Patterns

In this post you will find two small functions that convert binary value to a decimal one and vice versa.

2018-05-19

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How to deploy data for the lookup tables, small dimensions and other meta-data with your database code

by faiggarayev

SQL Design Patterns

Deployment process equally responsible for deploying both database objects as well as an initial state of the database/applications. In this...

2018-05-10

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Best-practices, guiding principles of choosing procedure parameters

by faiggarayev

SQL Design Patterns

Designing implementation of interface is as critical as designing interface itself. In this post we will discuss some advice on...

2018-04-14

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Blogs

TryHackMe Advent of Cyber

I posted that I was thinking about the AdventOfCode this year, but wasn’t sure...

You should be running on SQL Server 2022

By Randolph West

It’s me again with my apparently semi-annual blog post. This time we’re going to...

Removing a PowerShell Array Element–#SQLNewBlogger

I saw an article on this and realized I had no idea how to...

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Replication Monitoring with Always On Availability Group

Hey Folks, So I have SQL Transactional Replication set up on a database that's...

Powershell, how to convert file to txt pipe

Hello, how can I change this code to txt pipe format? $DataSet.Tables[0] | Export-csv...

Summing different fields on a group by

HI I have a data set with student info; Name, Type there would be...

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