Learn how you can automate the creation of the CML and CEK for Always Encrypted in SQL Server

Setting Session Skill Levels

by Kathi Kellenberger

SQLServerCentral

Career Growth

Kathi Kellenberger discusses the challenge of deciding how to describe the content in the sessions she presents.

Why DBAs Must Embrace DevOps

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SimpleTalk

DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

A good day for a database administrator (DBA) is a lot like a good airline flight. A lot of excitement in either situation is bad. In a perfect world, a DBA will be productive and not spending most of their time “putting out fires.” (And fires are never a good idea on a flight!)

Building or Buying Analytics

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

One of the decisions that I've been involved with at the beginning of every software project is whether to buy software to solve the problem or build our own. This might be a quick "is there software anyone knows about to do this?" query, or an in-depth review of the marketplace or something in between. […]

Microsoft Exercise

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

We have got a deal for you, Microsoft is concerned about the health of your company and is doing something about it.

Parse Data from a Field Containing Multiple Values using CROSS APPLY

by Stan Kulp

SQLServerCentral.com

It is possible for a field in a character-delimited text file to contain a list of further-delimited values instead of the customary single value. This article demonstrates how to load such a file into a staging table, then use a CROSS APPLY query to parse the list of values into a related table.

5 Questions to Ask When You Upgrade SQL Server

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Brent Ozar Blog

SQL Server Upgrade

Whether you’re looking to go cutting-edge and hop on SQL Server 2019 as soon as it’s available, or whether you’re just trying to evacuate from SQL Server 2008 to anything that’s going to be supported after this summer, you’re probably doing upgrade projects. This is a good time to ask yourself 5 questions...

SQL Server and R with dplyr Package Examples for mutate, transmute, summarise, group_by, pipe and filter

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MSSQLTips.com

R Language

In this second part of this tip series we take a look at the dplyr package for R that can be used to query data using the R Language with SQL Server and build data visualizations.