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Grant Fritchey explains how database best practices should be followed more like those in Ham radio.
In this article, we discuss how schema swapping method can be used to keep tables online during the load process.
Your company is ignoring the news: SQL Server 2008 and 2008R2 are officially out of support as of today, but nothing’s changing at your company. You still have SQL Server 2008 in production, and you’re a little nervous. How should you approach the conversations with management? Brent Ozar will help: he;s been there too.
If you plan to make production data available for development and test purposes, you'll need to understand which columns contain personal or sensitive data, create a data catalog to record those decisions, devise and implement a data masking, and then provision the sanitized database copies. Richard Macaskill show how to automate as much of this process as possible.
In this article, learn how one DBA solved a query timeout issue with an application by examining the effects that different temporary objects have on query performance.
Users cause lots of security issues, and we ought to try to work within that framework, with the understanding the we can't prevent all problems.
Redgate's Will Sharman explores ways that database MSPs can save time, minimize effort and work more efficiently, while at the same time providing more value to their customers.
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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