SQL Server Auditing utilizes Extended Events in SQL Server. Although it is a feature-rich native solution available in all editions, you'll realize that when you start configuring the Audit and Specifications the filter options are not that widely documented or intuitive.
The difference between a low trust society (few individuals within a trust circle outside your family and/or tribe) and a high trust society (general trust of individuals beyond immediate family/tribe associations) generally speaking can be measured as the difference between a low tech (low trust) and high tech (high trust) society. Yes, exceptions abound, but […]
Steve notes that sometimes we message too often, but that's a human problem, not a tool issue.
Introduction MuleSoft Anypoint is a platform that helps to aggregate and integrate data from different source systems. As part of the data integration, the MuleSoft Anypoint Environment needs source system and target system login credentials stored in the platform, making it a vulnerability. The storage is vulnerable to attacks from cyber-criminals. This vulnerability can arise […]
In an SSDT-Flyway hybrid development, the required database changes may be delivered as a DACPAC, but we get far more control over merge operations and deployments if they are done using Flyway migrations. This article demonstrates how to automate as much as possible of the work required to extract a Flyway-compatible migration script from a DACPAC.
In this article, we will discuss the purpose and use of the WHERE LIKE clause in SQL Server and how it can help you construct more efficient queries.
Learn the basics of how CTEs work with a few examples in this article.
This article delves into five new dbatools command that work with sequence objects.
How do we design a monitoring system? The Amazon Prime team realized they didn't do a good job and changed their architecture.
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I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers