The problem of ransomware seems to be increasing. Major organizations are being hit and their servers are being affected. K. Brian Kelley explains some of the basic things you can do to reduce your expose to ransomeware.
A look back at the random nature of finding information in libraries and bookstores. A feeling Steve Jones misses.
When we have to deal with and store a lot of data, it makes sense to aggregate it so that we store only the information we actually need. If we get this right, this works well, but the design of the system takes care and thought because the problems can be subtle and various. Joe Celko describes some of the ways that things can go wrong and end up providing incorrect, inaccurate or misleading results.
You are given an export of a NoSQL database, in JSON, and asked to import it into a relational database. Sounds easy? It isn't and Phil Factor explain why.
Have you ever wondered how much database mail you have sent in the past day or week? What about those database mail items that were not successfully sent. In this tip, Greg Larsen shows you how to review the database mail items that have been processed by SQL Server.
Do you use version control for your databases? For your application code? Is there a time when you think it's not needed? Steve Jones asks the question today.
Why are practices like version control, continuous integration and automated deployment being introduced to application development but left on the shelf when it comes to the database? In search...
SQL Server 2016 introduced a new feature called Distributed Availability Group. A Distributed Availability Group is a special type of Availability Group that spans two separate Availability Groups. Edwin Sarmiento explains.
In prediction, accuracy is key. But it's not all it's cracked up to be as we will explore.
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