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
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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
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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
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Blogs
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Forums
Pay for Performance
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Slow - Linked server query
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Too Many Choices
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers