T-SQL Decommenter Part IV
Examination of the comprehensive test suite for the T-SQL Decommenter, along with explanation of the modifications made to produce the production version.
Meeting Preparation for SQL Server Projects
Learn how to prepare for technical meetings including knowing your environment, being calm, business values, solution focus and more.
Mitigate Issues Early
When you know there's a problem, it's better to solve it early rather than late.
Stairway to SQL Server Extended Events Level 4: Extended Events Engine - Essential Concepts
In this level, we're going to dig a little deeper into the Extended Events engine, its architecture, and fundamental components. It will give you a deeper understanding of why, in general, an Extended Events session is inherently lower in overhead than an equivalent SQL Trace. We'll also investigate how to design our event sessions to minimize any unnecessary overhead during event data collection, even when we need to create relatively complex event sessions to investigate difficult performance problems.
SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are two different approaches, with their own advantages and limitations, for making Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL Server) available and maintaining MS SQL Server databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Building Better Training Opportunities
Finding training opportunities can be a challenge in many organizations.
Redgate acknowledged as a representative vendor in Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Data Masking
Data masking really has come of age. Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Data Masking has just been published and predicts that the global enterprise use of data masking (DM) or similar de-identification techniques will rise to 40%, an increase from 15% in 2017. And Redgate is acknowledged in the Guide as a representative vendor for Data Masking.
SQL Server Auditing for HIPAA and SOX – Part 4
Regulations may require that you audit exactly who does what in your databases. Robert Sheldon explains how SQL Server can help you meet those requirements with its built-in auditing capabilities.
Choosing a Career
Learning about new jobs is a good way to help decide if you want to change careers.
Data Migration Assistant tool for Azure SQL DB/Azure VM Assessment
Data Migration Assistant (DMA) to Check for SQL Server Compatibility Issues and Perform assessment when Migrating to Azure SQL Database or to SQL Server on an Azure Virtual machine.
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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