The Poor Man’s SQL Backup Encryption - Syndication – WaterOx Consulting

Well, that was interesting While playing around with demos to use in my newer session, Hacking Exposé Too (See it...

Azure Data Catalog

Azure Data Catalog
Now available in public preview is the Azure Data Catalog.  The Data catalog provides an enterprise data repository...

Enterprise Strategies – A #TSQL2sDay post

This months TSQL2sDay blog post party is hosted by Jen McCown and is about Enterprise Strategy.
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Extended Events Objects

Today I want to start diving into some of this data a little deeper as we progress some of the of the core concepts surrounding Extended Events.
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Setting Up Alerts in Azure SQL Database

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SQL Server – Using Window ranking function with UPDATE statement

Hi friends, I was working on a scenario in which I need to assign a unique values to a column....

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Recently I had to develop some SSRS report, and my desktop machine had SQL Server 2014 installed on it. I...

The Fastest Way to Combine DATE and TIME Data Types to a DATETIME

Recently while working with a table where there were two columns, one a DATE datatype and a second TIME datatype,...