#ThankfulThursday
Wednesday March 13th 2024 I had the honor of speaking at the Redgate Summit in Atlanta and got to meet a lot of new people and get to hang...
2024-03-20 (first published: 2024-03-15)
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Wednesday March 13th 2024 I had the honor of speaking at the Redgate Summit in Atlanta and got to meet a lot of new people and get to hang...
2024-03-20 (first published: 2024-03-15)
124 reads
I have been involved in countless database migrations. Most of the time I have access to the existing source servers and future destination servers. In cases where you have...
2024-02-26 (first published: 2024-02-15)
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Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 introduced a new security feature for SQL Server databases called Always Encrypted. Always Encrypted is a feature designed to protect sensitive data,...
2024-02-19 (first published: 2024-02-04)
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I recently had a friend reach out to me about database performance dropping drastically. I asked if anything had changed recently on the server, and they told me that all...
2024-01-08
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Use Dynamic Data Masking to protect your data
The post Dynamic Data Masking – SQL Server appeared first on Tim Radney.
2023-12-25 (first published: 2023-12-03)
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I get asked about Azure SQL very often. This is a topic that I’ve written about and taught many times. To be honest, this is a rather large topic...
2023-11-17 (first published: 2023-10-25)
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When I review customers database environments, I always check to see what the recovery model is for their databases and review that with the customer. I often times have...
2023-11-15
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There have been many organizations that have become victims of ransomware over the years. Occasionally we hear about some high-profile cases in the news. Most every case I’ve read...
2023-09-19
Why should you patch your SQL Server instances? Compliance, stability, security, reliability, functionality, and more. Microsoft regularly releases updates to SQL Server known as Cumulative Updates (CUs). Cumulative updates...
2023-08-15
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My number one reason that you should test your backups is to make sure you know how to restore/recover. The absolute worst time to learn how to restore is...
2023-07-10
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By Kevin3NF
Can we normalize a couple of things? 1 – Trade Schools. Back in the...
Data isn't just about numbers and spreadsheets. It holds stories, patterns, and the answers...
By Brian Kelley
When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first...
hi we run 2019 std. we saw this week that someone hid 3 important...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The "ORDER BY" clause behavior
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Are IT Certifications Still Relevant?
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers