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Masking Dates in a Non-Production Database

Gerry Leith explores what’s required for the effective masking of dates and times in your data. Read more

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SQL Provision adds fully integrated data masking

Karis Brummit announces SQL Provision, which combines SQL Clone's fast, lightweight database copying and centralized management of provisioning, with Data Maskers's ability to obfuscate sensitive or personal data, prior to distribution. Read more

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Misuse of the scalar user-defined function as a constant (PE017)

The incorrect use of a scalar UDF as a global database constant is a major performance problem and should be investigated whenever SQL Prompt spots this in any production code. Unless you need to use these global constants in computed columns or constraints, it is generally safer and more convenient… Read more

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Customizing the SQL Prompt built-in snippets: a better ALTER TABLE ADD (ata) snippet

Phil Factor improves SQL Prompt's built-in ALTER TABLE ADD (ata) snippet so that it enforces certain coding standards, such as specifying whether the column accepts NULL values, and ensuring the new column is well-documented. Read more

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Avoid T-SQL Technical Debt using SQL Prompt Code Analysis

SQL Prompt can help prevent the build-up of technical debt in your database code. It alerts the team immediately to issues that might not prevent your code from working as expected, but could eventually cause problems with performance, or maintenance, or even security. Read more

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How to reformat a database in one operation

Inherited a database from another team? Changed your team policy on the way that you format SQL? What's to stop you formatting the code of an entire database nicely, when you're developing it? Manually, the process can take longer than you expect. Phil Factor demonstrates a simple 3-step approach to… Read more

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How to Test SQL Server Functions and Procedures using SQL Prompt

Phil Factor shows how to create a table of input values versus expected results, and then use it to unit test your SQL stored procedures and functions and verify that they always produce the correct results. He uses SQL Prompt to make this task much simpler. Read more

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Baselining a SQL Change Automation project from an existing database

This article show how to create a 'baseline' for your Visual Studio SQL Change Automation project, from an existing, target SQL Server database, so that the team can start making changes and easily deploy them to the target database. Read more

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How to monitor the impact of patching on SQL Server performance

This article uses the Spectre/Meltdown bugs as means to demonstrate how you can use a tool like Redgate Monitor to assess the impact of patching on the throughput and performance of your SQL Servers. Read more

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How to use the SQL Prompt snippet placeholders for selecting and copying text

Phil Factor demonstrates the power of placeholders in SQL Prompt Snippets, for selecting and copying text. They make it very easy to build queries by dragging-and-dropping from the SSMS object explorer, and also to save queries as reusable views or inline table valued functions. Read more

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Masking Dates in a Non-Production Database

SQL Provision adds fully integrated data masking

Misuse of the scalar user-defined function as a constant (PE017)

Customizing the SQL Prompt built-in snippets: a better ALTER TABLE ADD (ata) snippet

Avoid T-SQL Technical Debt using SQL Prompt Code Analysis

How to reformat a database in one operation

How to Test SQL Server Functions and Procedures using SQL Prompt

Baselining a SQL Change Automation project from an existing database

How to monitor the impact of patching on SQL Server performance

How to use the SQL Prompt snippet placeholders for selecting and copying text

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