Robotics Process Automation: The New Digital Assistant
When most of us think of robotics used in enterprises, automating manufacturing processes comes to mind. Robotics Process Automation (RPA), however, deals with automating mundane office tasks. In this article, Arvind Kumar explains the benefits of RPA and presents a case study.
Enjoying a Down Weekend
Steve is looking for entertainment suggestions after the Oscar nominations were released.
Installing R packages in SQL Server R Services
This article shows four ways you can use when installing missing R packages for Microsoft R Services.
The 2019 Data Professional Salary Survey Results
How much do database administrators, analysts, architects, developers, and data scientists make? We asked, and 882 of you from 46 countries answered this year. Y’all make a total of $84,114,940 USD per year! Hot diggety. (And at first glance, it looks like on average, y’all got raises this year.)
Cyber Insecurity in Pakistan
Journalist Alamzeb Khan discusses recent security breaches in Pakistan that have affected millions of people and accounts.
An Introduction to RLS Security Policies: Level 3 of the Stairway to Row-Level Security
An introduction to how security policies work for RLS.
Cleanup SQL Server Query Store Data After Database Restore
In this tip we look at how to cleanup the SQL Server query store after a database has been restored to ensure that query store starts data collection starts fresh.
Blogs
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Availability Groups on Kubernetes
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
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The Vector Data Type
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