Let's Fix a Password Problem
Grant discusses the need for password managers to help prevent security issues between different accounts.
Provisioning ADF - Level 2 of the Stairway to Azure Data Factory
In this next level of the Stairway to Azure Data Factory, learn how to build your first ADF environment.
Monitoring your Servers and Databases with New Relic Infrastructure and SQL Monitor
New Relic Infrastructure is a capable server monitoring tool but adding Integrations provides only 'bare bones' monitoring for SQL Server. Grant Fritchey argues that to "instrument" a complex system such as SQL Server, effectively, you also need a tool that is built specifically for this purpose.
The 2020 Data Professional Salary Survey Results Are In.
We asked what you make, and 1,734 of you in 63 countries answered. Altogether, you made $170,753,936 this year. Damn, y’all are bringing home the bacon!
Re-oiling the gears for the data dictionary or catalog
Documentation is never a favorite task for developers. This article describes how you can use database system catalogs to make generating column descriptions less labor-intensive and also jump start a data dictionary or catalog.
Two Important ‘ONLINE’ Column-Level Operations in SQL Server
Today Kendra talks about two of the online options used when working with indexes.
Going Serverless with Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has a new virtual core offering of Azure SQL database called serverless and this offering optimizes the price performance tradeoff and simplifies performance management for databases with intermittent and unpredictable usage.
The Need for a Data Catalog
In the event of a breach of personal data, any organization must produce proof that they understand what data they hold and where, and how it is being used, and that they have enforced the required standards for access control and security. To make all this possible, it is essential to build a complete model of the data and its lineage, and a data catalog is the first step in this process.
Dynamically process SSAS Cube from SSIS package
Learn how you can modify an SSIS package to dynamically process SSAS cubes.
Blogs
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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