When I look at a SQL Server, one of the first things I check is, “How much memory does this thing have relative to the amount of data we’re hosting on here?” I’ve long used some seat-of-the-pants numbers, but armed with data from SQL ConstantCare® users who opted into public data sharing, let’s do a little deeper analysis.
Learn about new functions in SQL Server 2016 and 2017 to have more readable and compact code including STRING_AGG, TRIM, TRANSLATE and DROP... IF EXISTS.
In this level we examine how to add disks to separate our data, log, and tempdb files.
Data breaches do more than harm an organization. There's a human cost.
JSON is a viable option for transferring data between systems. It has the ability to include schema information along with the data which is an advantage over CSV files. In this article, Phil Factor demonstrates how he takes advantage of JSON when exporting or importing tables.
Information protection becomes one of the dominant factors that drive modern database design and implementation. This becomes particularly evident when operating in a cloud computing environment, with Azure SQL Database serving as one of the prime examples of this trend. Microsoft delivers relevant features by leveraging several different security-related Azure services. In this article, we will provide an overview of this functionality.
This article provides pricing guidance for SQL Server virtual machines in Azure.
File systems and document databases are the wild lands of data privacy. Phil Factor explains the value of JSON Schema in adding provenance to your document data.
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Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
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While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
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