One thing that most all data breaches have in common is that it involves data access patterns that are not typical. The hacker must poke around, exploring for vulnerabilities, and...

RegEx is useful, particularly for ETL, but from the perspective an application, having the data in a normalized and index-able format is more useful. A discussion came up a few...

Here is a portion of the execution plan:

After examining Query Store, I have determined the following update statement is the source for the sample error above. It's performing an UPDATE/JOIN between a staging table and the production...

OK, here I will restate the problem, this time with less obfuscation, except for the actual data values involved.

Here is a sample error. 

Cannot insert duplicate key...