If you have a change control process and/or continuous integration process in place, then you can refer to that to see what recent deployments have occurred, not just on the...

I like INFORMATION_SCHEMA views because they are denormalized and easy to use. For example, the COLUMNS view returns information that would require joining a half dozen SYS tables. If I...

The crux of this equation is the Understanding part and how much risk all parties involved are willing to take. Branson's company is quite large today, and a lot of...

Law enforcement should setup special phone numbers and credit card numbers for use in seeding honeypot databases. For example, the hacker steals a list of credit card information from an...

For a non-IT related profession: chef, documentary film maker, crime scene investigator. However, if I were to give up my current job in IT, I'd really have to scale back...

If these columns will potentially be updated at a later point, then stick with CHAR, because updating NULL-able VARCHAR columns can result in change of row size, page splits, and...

Were I not a DBA, I'd be hustling to become a DBA.

I'm not understanding the use of views for this. There is also no need to add logins for each individual user account, just add login and user access for the AD...

Or simply create a linked server.

It's a common misconception that usage of linked servers create performance issues. Actually, no. A linked server is nothing more than a...

Think about it for a moment. From what I've seen, the root of most massive high profile data breaches are not the result of result of cracked or weak passwords,...

The Data Modeling Scorecard website looks interesting. I don't know how I missed hearing about this guy Steve Hoberman.

I think there is room for at least a couple of AI or ML literate people in any large IT organization, but let's not get carried away with the idea....

To make this more transparent, I encrypt using session level symmetric keys and wrap a view around each table to provide the decrypted computed columns.

We use a product called SecretServer to manage our service account passwords, certificates, etc. across the enterprise. It also has a web service based API for integration with PowerShell scripts...