Frequent deployments can give you greater flexibility in meeting changing business requirements, but if code quality is poor this may cause major headaches for your customers and your whole organization. Join Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and AWS Community Builder Grant Fritchey to discover the benefits of, and best practices for frequent deployments.
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In SQL Server there are 4 different ranking functions: RANK, DENSE_RANK, NTILE, and ROW_NUMBER. These ranking functions were introduced in SQL Server 2005. In this stairway level I will be reviewing each of these different ranking functions, and will show you how to use them by providing a few examples.
Microsoft announced Azure Synapse Link for SQL. In this article, MVP Dennes Torres explains the new feature.
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USE Sales; GO CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256 ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE MyServerCert; GOThis works, but I want to prepare for the future and potential issues. How do I back up my DEK? See possible answers