Esat Erkec
Making practice is always important to learn SQL

Getting started with SQL Programming

February 3, 2021 by

Learning SQL programming is valuable for our career and might help to increase our incomes but most importantly it will be the best investment you will make for yourself. However, beginners don’t know the exact starting point to begin learning the SQL language. Learning SQL depends entirely on your effort and desire, and other things are just details. This article will give some tips on how to learn SQL without going into technical details so that so you can get started in learning SQL right now.

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Aveek Das
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Understanding AWS Billing services and concepts

February 3, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to explain AWS Billing services and the underlying concepts that one should be aware of while working with AWS. As you know, more and more companies are taking the essential step to migrate their existing applications to the cloud, it has become important for engineers to keep up the pace and learn the technologies of the cloud. In today’s market, AWS and Azure are two of the major cloud providers which are being used mostly. Also, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is becoming popular, however, the demand for AWS is the highest.

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Dinesh Asanka
Default Data Masking Option Azure SQL.

Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server

February 2, 2021 by

Introduction

In this article, we will be looking at how to perform and access Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server. Data Masking is the process of hiding data with different rules. One of the main reasons to apply data masking is to protect Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and sensitive data from unauthorized access. Even when unauthorized users access these data, they will not be able to view the actual values. This article will look at the possibilities of applying Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server and we will look at how Dynamic Data masking can be applied to the Azure SQL Databases as well.

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Esat Erkec
How we can read a query plan

How to read an execution plan with all details

January 28, 2021 by

In this article, we will discuss how to read the SQL Server execution plan (query plan) with all aspects through an example, so we will gain some practical experience that helps to solve query performance issues. Interpreting query plans correctly is the first and major principle to troubleshoot query performance issues. When we try to find an answer to the “why is this query running slow?” question, the best starting point would be to analyze the query plan.

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Prashanth Jayaram
Database auditing: Security feature in Azure SQL Database

A quick overview of database audit in SQL

January 28, 2021 by

Database auditing is an important task that helps to guide the organization and can point out areas that can be improved, the cause of functions that aren’t quite working as intended, or simply monitoring activity for compliance with government or industry policies. At its core, an audit simply logs events that are happening on the server instance or in a database and saves them out as audit files that can be reviewed after the fact. In general, the objective of Security, Compliance and Auditing is that “all data should remain secure”. There are many techniques and tools available to secure, protect and safeguard the data, but how do you know what’s right for your organization?

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Aveek Das
AWS Well-Architected Framework

An overview of AWS Well-Architected Principles

January 27, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to explain about the AWS Well-Architected Framework that helps AWS customers to design solutions following best practices while designing the architectures of their solutions. It enables the users to design secure, reliable and high performant cloud applications and workloads. This is more of a theoretical concept that is often advised to be followed while thinking of the architecture of any system. There are five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework that enables customers to evaluate their existing architectures and implement scalable solutions. In this article, we will learn more about those five pillars and the best practices around them. The discussion below is a summarized form of the official whitepaper: AWS Well-Architected Framework.

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Rajendra Gupta
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Migrating your on-premises SQL databases to AWS RDS SQL Server using AWS DMS

January 25, 2021 by

There are multiple ways to deploy the databases in the AWS RDS SQL Server. Suppose you want to migrate your on-premises SQL Server database to AWS managed relational database service and you have a critical application and require minimal (almost zero) downtime. For this purpose, you can use the AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) in a combination of SQL Server native backups.

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Aveek Das
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Working with Database Projects

January 22, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to talk about developing and deploying a database project, also known as a data-tier application using Visual Studio. In my previous article Getting started with Data-Tier Applications using Visual Studio, I have provided an overview of the data tier applications and how can we create one using Visual Studio. This article is a follow-up to the previous article. I’d advise you to have a look at it before proceeding forward with this as this is a continuation of the previous. For the article, I would be using Visual Studio 2019, however, you are free to use any other versions of Visual Studio.

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