This is the last article, but not least, in the SQL Server Audit series. In this series (see TOC at the bottom), we explained deeply the concept of the SQL Server Audit, why it becomes mandatory for each company to have a SQL Server Audit solution to track and log the different types of events at both the SQL Server instance and database levels. We also went through and compare the different methods that can be used to audit the SQL Server instances and databases.
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If this is your first visit to this SQL Server Transaction Log series, I recommend you first review the previous articles (see the TOC below), in order not to be familiar with the concepts that we will discuss in this article. Reviewing the previous articles, you will have a good idea about the following:
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SQL server Integration services provides us with SSIS Web Service Tasks which assist us to drive web services.
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In previous articles of this SQL Server Audit series (see the TOC at the bottom), we discussed the main concept and real-life needs for having a SQL Server Audit solution. After that, we went through the different methods that can be used to audit the SQL Server instances and databases. In this article, we will show how to take advantages of the System-versioned Temporal Tables feature to audit database table DML changes.
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We made a collection of the most popular MySQL bloggers, including a link to each individual blog. The ranking is based on Alexa global score as of April 25, 2019.
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This article explores SQL Server Concatenate operations using the SQL Plus (+) operator and SQL CONCAT function.
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SSAS interview questions is a new article for people looking for SSAS jobs.
In our previous article, we talked about SSIS interview questions. In this new article, we will talk about the SSAS interview questions to be prepared for an interview for a job using SQL Server Analysis Services.
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Depending on our design and security, we can create functions or use built-in tools to control our Azure costs. In some contexts, we may look at the overall cost of what tools we’re using, which the Azure portal conveniently shows. Applying what we’ve looked at on the organization and development level, we can organize resources on their design (or ad hoc, as we’ll see) along with creating scripts that control our scale for situations where we may want higher or lower scale. We’ll look at both of these scenarios and how they can help us in both organization and development contexts.
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This article on SQL Server Always On Listeners includes an overview and various connection configurations for specifying MultiSubnetFailover including SSMS, ODBC, ADO.NET, as well as MultiSubnetFailover limitations and how to connect to all IP addresses via RegisterAllProvidersIP.
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In a high OLTP environment, we may observe strain on CPU and IO due to frequent backups. It might include further complexity due to backup compressions. SQL Server Always On Availability groups provides the capability to perform database backups from the secondary replicas. This article explores Log backups in SQL Server Always On Availability Group.
In this article, we will review how to migrate database from on-premises SQL Server instance to AWS RDS SQL Server instance and between AWS RDS instances using native backup, restore and amazon simple storage service(S3).
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This article explores the SQL ISNULL function to replace NULL values in expressions or table records with examples.
In my previous article Data Synchronization in SQL Server Always On Availability Group, we described a scenario where if a secondary replica goes down in synchronous data commit mode, SQL Server Always on Availability group changes to asynchronous data commit mode. It ensures that users can get their transaction commit irrespective of waiting for a secondary replica to come online.
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We use the SQL CHARINDEX function to find the position of a substring or expression in a given string. We might have a character in different positions of a string. SQL CHARINDEX returns the first position and ignores the rest of matching character positions in a string.
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The Python programming language is object oriented, easy to use and, widely used programming language. We can write simple Python SQL Scripts and it performs the task that is not easy to do with t-SQL.
In this SQL Unit testing article, we will continue our journey with SQL unit testing. In the previous articles of this series (see the TOC at the bottom), we mentioned about SQL unit testing essentials and designing approaches as well and then we reinforce these notions with various tSQLt framework practical examples. In this article, we will continue to learn how to mock stored procedures in the tSQLt framework and we will provide it with two examples.
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A SQL Server cursor is a database object that is used to process the data in a set row by row. In this article, we will review how to create a cursor and different attributes used while declaring a cursor.
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This SQL unit testing article is based on the fact that we often learn from the mistakes so the idea is to highlight the mistakes to understand them clearly so that they can be avoided straight away.
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This article explores the DATEADD SQL function and its usage scenarios with various examples.
This article describes the data synchronization process on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups in both Synchronous, and Asynchronous data commit mode.
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This article is the sequel in a series about SQL Server monitoring tools and common performance issues. Before reading this piece, it advisable to read the previous two articles about monitoring tools for disk I/O and memory performance:
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In this article series, we are exploring SQL unit testing, in general, and also we are reinforcing details and topics with various practical examples. We are using the tSQLt framework because it is the quite powerful and handy tool in order to develop and code SQL unit tests.
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This article gives an overview of Orphan users and fixing them using DBATools PowerShell.
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Azure costs can quickly mount, without careful supervision and management. This article will detail cost mitigation strategies using security and design
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In this article, we will review how to migrate database from on-premise SQL Server instance to AWS RDS SQL Server instance using AWS Database migration service. There are different ways to migrate the database to the AWS RDS instance:
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