Every organization must perform data governance. This requires planning, oversight, and control over the management, security, resilience and quality of data and over the use of data by the organization. In larger organizations, it can be a complex task. William Brewer explains what's involved.
In this article, we look at how to set up Transparent Data Encryption for SQL Server and Oracle along with the differences and similarities.
A traffic cop isn't a great analogy for a DBA, but all too often it is an accurate one.
In Part 3, we look at how to use Python to create more charts for Power BI.
Learn how to build graph node and edge tables using Azure Data Studio in this step-by-step guide.
This article isn’t about the act of lock escalation itself, which is already well documented and generally well understood. Some myths (like row locks escalating to page locks) persist, but challenging those yet again probably wouldn’t change much.
I was sitting here thinking about the editorial when Kathi Kellenberger came to mind. She would frequently write about her favorite show, Star Trek. I too have been a fan of Star Trek since I was very young. However, my favorite show is a little more obscure and not as many people have seen it, […]
Learn how you can bulk set passwords using PowerShell for all your instances.
Helping others has been good for Steve's career and he encourages you to do it as well.
If your database application requires 'static data' to function, then the best way to manage that data is using a view based on a derived table. This article demonstrates ways to create these views, depending on your RDBMS's capabilities, and how to build and manage them in development work, using Flyway and PowerShell.
By Steve Jones
Next week is the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle. I’ll be traveling...
By Steve Jones
bye-over – n. the sheepish casual vibe between two people who’ve shred an emotional...
I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM...
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I have a backup of full, differential and transaction log setup for our database....
Hello everyone, I hope you can help me. I have a table with measurement...
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