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A good security scheme will contain many layers. Today Steve Jones talks about one of those: good habits.
Why should any SQLserver administrator, DBA, or Developer be interested in Powershell? Johan Bijens presents a few reasons today.
What do SQL joins and the "teach a man to fish" Chinese proverb have in common? SQL joins, like regular expressions, are one of those commonplace programming tasks in which true success is entirely dependent upon your ability to conceptualize the outcome. Fail to do so and you'll likely wind up spending a few hours in a frustrating round of trial and error. Like regular expressions, the proliferation of online examples has actually contributed to the frustration, providing the equivalent of a day's worth of fish rather than the proverbial fishing pool.
This article from Warren Campbell shows a process to recreate permissions in development environments after restoring a database from a production instance.
Transparent Data Encryption is only available in Enterprise Edition and above. Steve Jones thinks that's a mistake.
FatherJack shows you how to check that your alerts and notifications are linked up so that when an Alert condition is met that you get the appropriate Notifications sent to Operators.
This Friday Steve Jones asked about penetration testing of your security. Have any of you ever tested your systems?
This article highlights each of the additional items needed to create a clean but beautiful report. Using the simple items of headers and footers, textboxes, and other layout options will increase the readability and manageability of your reports.
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers