Proceeds from collected fines could go toward public awareness campaigns. Also, rather than simply establishing regulations and proscribing periodic audits, the government could hire a team to perform network penetration,...

I am skeptical about how far the government will go to enforce data privacy and protection regulations on big data companies, considering that the government actually leverages these same companies...

Also, before you drop the database, take it offline and leave in place for a few days just to see if someone or something complains.

The DMV dm_db_index_usage_stats can be used to query reads and writes on indexes.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-dynamic-management-views/sys-dm-db-index-usage-stats-transact-sql?view=sql-server-2017

The columns you'll find useful are these:
last_user_seek    datetime    Time of last user seek

Most enterprise database environments have a hub and spoke or snowflake architecture. There is a central transactional database server, and then there are data marts and other line of business...

In addition to the firewall, you can secure access to your Azure resources using VPN, Azure AD authentication, and access tokens. For hackers, the low hanging fruit are unpatched servers,...

The database engine chosen for an application needs to match the expected data access patterns. RDMS are excellent for scenarios where you need to query, insert, and update manageable subsets...

Here you can estimate the costs for compute and storage.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql-data-warehouse/gen2/
Also, iIf you're considering a hybrid scenario, where your source systems and applications are on-prem and your...

In the past, I've used schemas to isolate different versions of the same object within the same database. I used this typically in development or for parallel testing in QA....

Provide some context about how this view fits into the overall data warehouse design, and how it will be used. From a data warehousing perspective, assuming this discussion is in...

The article describes the business analyst in question using the past tense, so it makes me wonder if she was a contractor or consultant. If so, then I can see...