Secure Enclave Concerns
A new security flaw in Intel SGX is found by researchers. This may or may not be a problem, but you should be aware.
Approaches to Import JSON in SSIS (SQL Server 2016+) Part 1
In this article, 1st of 2-part series, we will look at 2 approaches to import JSON in SSIS using 2 methods: the new functionality of SQL Server 2016 and the Json.NET library.
Updating Certifications
Microsoft is retiring some certifications and offering others. Steve has a few thoughts on this.
Free Fundamentals of Index Tuning Week: Part 2, Indexing for ORDER BY
I’m teaching my Mastering Index Tuning pre-con at SQLBits and SQL Saturday Iceland, and part of the prerequisites is that you’re already familiar with my How to Think Like the Engine class and my Fundamentals of Index Tuning class. To make that easier, I’m running the Fundamentals of Index Tuning class this week on the blog.
Using the RANKX function in Power BI
Introduction In this article, I'll explain the use of the RANKX function available in DAX. The RANKX is a sortation function which is capable of performing a quite complex sorting and ranking based on the groups and values available in the dataset. It returns the ranking of a particular number available in each row of […]
Enterprise Insights from the 2020 State of Database DevOps report
17% of Enterprise respondents in this year's State of Database DevOps survey reported that DevOps has been adopted across all projects in their organization. This year’s State of Database DevOps report gave us some great insights into the landscape of Database DevOps. Kendra Little walks us through those insights specific to Enterprise organizations.
Free Fundamentals of Index Tuning Week: Part 1, Indexing for the WHERE Clause
I’m teaching my Mastering Index Tuning pre-con at SQLBits and SQL Saturday Iceland, and part of the prerequisites is that you’re already familiar with my How to Think Like the Engine class and my Fundamentals of Index Tuning class.
Why Containers?
Steve Jones highlights the importance he sees for data professionals in the containerization of software.
SQL Server Machine Learning 2019: Working with Security Changes
SQL Server Machine Learning allows you to run R and Python scripts from SQL Server. When SQL Server 2019 was released, Microsoft enhanced the security for this functionality, but it caused some existing code writing to the file system to to break. In this article, Dennes Torres explains the security enhancement and describes three ways to work with it.
Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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Backup to Immutable Storage
In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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