PowerShell Tool Time: Controlling Our Tools
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Can you prevent deletes and inserts without a WHERE clause from running?
Erik writes a script to do what it says on the tin.
Questions About Amazon Data Migration Service (AWS DMS) That You Were Too Shy to Ask
Can you imagine it? You are in a group of smart database people, and they are debating the finer points about AWS DMS, and you don't even know what the letters stand for. You just feel too shy to ask those basic questions that seem ridiculous once you're up to speed. Laerte Junior answers all the questions you need answers for when facing the prospect of getting familiar with Amazon's useful Database Migration Service.
Quickly Restricting Database Access
There may be times when you need to perform maintenance against a database that requires you to keep normal database users from connecting to your database while the maintenance is being performed. You want to stop users from connecting right away, but you want the database to be in a state that you can perform maintenance.
The Slow Week
This is usually a slow time for many companies between two holidays, but it doesn't need to be unproductive.
Current State of the NewSQL/NoSQL Cloud Arena
Choosing the right data platform is not an easy task. Warner Chaves compares the capabilities of the big three Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, Microsoft’s Cosmos DB, Google’s Cloud Spanner, and Amazon’s DynamoDB, to help you make the right choice for your application.
Azure DWH part 22: Dynamic Management Views
The DMV are very effective and important to administer ASDWH. In this article we will show some important DMVs.
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From OLTP to Analytics: Bridging the Gap with Modern SQL Architectures
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Question of the Day
Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers