If you are holding, in your organisation, personal data about real people or commerce, it is wrong, and in many cases illegal to do database development work or testing using your production data. This, of course, probably applies to a minority of database systems, but data breaches caused by attacking backups or copies of production […]
Paul White shows that SQL Server sometimes produces very misleading information about the impact of sort operations.
Introducing JSON Select - a new library that makes it easy to pull values out of JSON strings in SQL Server 2005+
Glenn Berry discusses the ever-changing landscape of memory/storage technology, and how it relates to SQL Server workloads on Windows servers.
In this post I will attempt to explore simple commands to manipulate data pulled in from a SQL database into R.
Executing R scripts can be a heavy load. Today Steve Jones wonders if SQL Server is the best place to execute these.
Arshad Ali demonstrates how you can analyze the data collected by Query Store either with T-SQL scripting or with the graphical user interface in SSMS.
The number one million has special meaning to many people. And it's a heck of a metric to achieve in a measurement on a database system.
A major difficulty for a System Administrator who wishes to provide access for auditors, Helpdesk staff, developers and other IT people is that adminstrator roles give users more access than they need. It is too easy to make mistakes, or to make more changes than those that were signed-off. With JEA, it is possible to create role-based access control (RBAC) endpoints that define precisely what actions you’ll let your users carry out without needing a elevated, privileged administrator credentials, and which log and report all operations.
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If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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