Assembling Your Own Toolbox
Building a toolbox of useful scripts and code is important for any technology professional.
Data Masking: Static vs Dynamic
Learn about how static data masking differs from dynamic masking and learn which one might be best for your organization.
Build Conditional Logic - SQL IF, BEGIN, END, ELSE, ELSEIF
Learn how to build conditional logic when writing SQL code using IF, BEGIN, END, ELSE, and ELSEIF logic.
Improving the Quality of Data Governance: Where to Start?
How do we set about improving the quality of data governance within an organization? What are the priorities? Data Governance is generally considered to mean providing clear roles, responsibilities, policies, principles, and organizational structures that can ensure that data is managed well, in a way that benefits the whole organization. Where do you start?
The Value of Seniority
Some people might seem like they are from the future, but their experience is just shining through.
Delivering Cloud Transformation Excellence: Collaboration, Communication and Governance - Part 6
This article covers tips on establishing, enhancing, and empowering collaboration, communication, and governance on Cloud Transformation projects.
Transaction locking and row versioning guide
In any database, mismanagement of transactions often leads to contention and performance problems in systems that have many users. As the number of users that access the data increases, it becomes important to have applications that use transactions efficiently. This guide describes the locking and row versioning mechanisms the SQL Server Database Engine uses to ensure the physical integrity of each transaction and provides information on how applications can control transactions efficiently.
How to work with Python in Azure Data Studio
Learn how to use Python code with Azure Data Studio to work with SQL Server data.
The Growth of IQP
Steve talks about some of the Intelligent Query Processing improvements in SQL Server 2022.
Convert Problematic Data in SQL Server
In this article, we look at various ways to convert problematic data in SQL Server by using TRY_CAST, TRY_CONVERT, and TRY_PARSE.
Blogs
2024 PASS Data Community Summit Prep
By Steve Jones
Next week is the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle. I’ll be traveling...
A New Word: Bye-over
By Steve Jones
bye-over – n. the sheepish casual vibe between two people who’ve shred an emotional...
Free webinar – Tackling the Gaps and Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions
I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM...
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database restore chain
I have a backup of full, differential and transaction log setup for our database....
Temporary Table Problem
Hello everyone, I hope you can help me. I have a table with measurement...
Question of the Day
Incremental Statistics
I have run this on SQL Server 2022 for the Sales database:
ALTER DATABASE Sales SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON (INCREMENTAL = ON)I then run this in the Sales database:
USE Sales GO CREATE STATISTICS CustomerStats1 ON dbo.Customer (CustomerKey, EmailAddress) WITH INCREMENTAL = OFFThe dbo.Customer table is partitioned. How are statistics created? See possible answers