Whether or not to have NULLable columns in a table can be a religious debate, and how missing data is represented should be carefully considered during database design. In this article, Joe Celko considers the ways that SQL Server handles NULLs in several situations.
There is more to our lives than work, and Steve asks that we learn more about other parts of life.
Using R integration for analyzing sales data in WideWorldImporters database
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Learning active forgiveness can be a challenge, but it may help you build a better team.
In order to protect data and comply with regulations such as the GDPR and HIPAA, databases used by developers and testers must not contain private and sensitive data from production databases. To help DBAs protect data, Microsoft have released a new feature as part of SSMS called Static Data Masking. In this article, Greg Larsen demonstrates how to use this new feature.
Setting up your authorization and security can be fairly easy, but perhaps we ought to consider more complex scenarios.
A great deal of the confusion that occurs when a database application is developed comes from a poor understanding of the basics of data. Here, Joe Celko gives a broad coverage of the difficulties you're likely to meet when handling data in databases.
Learn how to import data into Power BI using either R or Python scripts.
Disaster recovery planning can be hard, and we often forget about some of the non technical issues.
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