Whether you are facing GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, etc. regulations, encrypting your SQL Server databases is a critical component to be compliant. SQL Server offers a few different options, but you should be aware of alternative solutions to be compliant.
Attend this webcast to learn tips on how to work with your system administrators to achieve a higher level of ability for your critical SQL Servers in the cloud.
Biml or Business Intelligence Markup Language is an open-source XML dialect to generate Integration Services (SSIS) packages. Take a look at this Biml tutorial to learn how you can use Biml to generate SSIS packages.
Moving SQL Server from an on-premises data center to a public cloud such as AWS can enable your business to be more agile and more responsive to changing market requirements and customer needs.
To gain insight into the evolving challenges for DBAs, a study was performed to survey DBAs and those responsible for the management of the corporate data management infrastructure. The more than 200 respondents came from a wide range of industries...
SQL Server 2005 introduced the APPLY operator, which is very much like a join clause and which allows joining between two table expressions i.e. joining a left/outer table expression with a right/inner table expression. The difference between join and APP
Often we see an error message from SQL Server which references a particular line number within our T-SQL code. It is a little frustrating to find the line number where the syntax error has occurred. In this tip we will take a look at how to quickly enable
Check out these scripts to create SQL Server jobs and Alerts when a login is created or dropped, a database user is added or dropped and when logins are added or removed from server roles or users are added or removed from database roles.
In this tip we will demonstrate how the Import Flat File Wizard works and see how useful it is over the Import Data Wizard that already exists in SQL Server.
With SQL Server is it possible to move the secondary database involved with Log Shipping to a different drive without disturbing the Log Shipping configuration? If so, what are the steps to accomplish this task? Check out this tip to learn more.
We're pretty confident that we have locked down and encrypted our financial data, but a lot of our customer's PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data is still held in unencrypted form. This data is able to be selected directly by read only business
In this tip we look at how to query SQL Server temporal tables and history tables using FOR SYSTEM_TIME including AS OF, ALL, FROM, BETWEEN and CONTAINED IN.
Whether you are facing GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, etc. regulations, encrypting your SQL Server databases is a critical component to be compliant. SQL Server offers a few different options, but you should be aware of alternative solutions to be compliant.
In this tip we look at how we can automatically build scripts based on SQL Server backup file contents to automate the restore process for SQL Server running on Linux servers.
