Quick Security Mistakes
Steve reminds you to be careful of taking shortcuts, as these can compromise security. Automation and DevOps might help you avoid mistakes.
2020-01-06
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Security
2019-12-30
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2019-12-23
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Better Protection from Hardware
Today Steve looks at a research project from Microsoft that provides some better protection from firmware security issues.
2019-12-17
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Querying Master Database DMVs in Azure SQL Database
Learn how you can query information in the logical server's master database from an Azure SQL Database.
2019-12-12
6,055 reads
Data for Defense
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center actively works to track the world's hackers and help warn us when we become the object of their attacks.
2019-12-09
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2019-12-06
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2019-11-29
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Azure Sphere
The Azure Sphere project is a great piece of research at Microsoft that might help us data professionals with security.
2019-11-25
239 reads
Losing The Security Game
Losing the security game is no fun when data is involved. Steve points out some things you should be doing.
2019-10-21
269 reads
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers