Five Useful SQL Server Management Practices
This article outlines five SQL Server capabilities you can use to enhance your efficiency as a DBA.
2017-01-18
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Security
2017-01-06
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Dynamic Data Masking Feature in SQL Server 2016
Microsoft has introduced very impressive new security feature in SQL Server 2016 called Dynamic Data Masking (DDM).Dynamic Data Masking allow user to decide how much of the sensitive data to reveal with minimal impact on the application layer.
2017-01-05
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2016-11-14 (first published: 2016-11-06)
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2016-09-07
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SQL Authentication Via AD Groups Part III: What About Orphaned Users?
With AD Authentication via groups, SQL Server is vulnerable to orphaned Windows users' logins being added to SQL Server at a later date. This article gives an improved user audit script that detects orphaned DB Users and also a delete script.
2016-07-18
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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