BI Dennes Torres in BI Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric Source control is fundamental when dealing with projects and sharing code between multiple developers. Power BI present some challenges related... 22 November 2023 24 min read
BI Fabriano Richard in BI What is Microsoft Fabric all about? In this article, we will introduce Microsoft Fabric and how it relates to Power BI Premium Capacity we will turn... 22 November 2023 11 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Strategies for queries against bit columns Recently someone posted a question where they couldn’t quite figure out how to construct a predicate based on a bit... 20 November 2023 7 min read
Database Administration Aaron Bertrand in Database Administration Moving SQL Server To The Cloud: Modernizing Stack Overflow for Teams Earlier this year, we migrated the entire Stack Overflow for Teams platform to Azure. This was a lengthy endeavour and... 06 November 2023 11 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI SQL Endpoints and Lakehouse UI Differences and Access Secrets There are some differences and secrets between the UI of a SQL Endpoint and the UI of a Lakehouse. I... 30 October 2023 7 min read
T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Export & Import Data in SQL Server: CSV, Parquet & PowerShell Export and import data in SQL Server using PowerShell and OPENROWSET. Step-by-step guide for CSV files, parquet format, BCP, SQL... 23 October 2023 23 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Don’t Use DISTINCT as a SQL Join Fixer – Use EXISTS Instead Using DISTINCT to fix duplicate rows from a SQL join is a common antipattern. It generates all the duplicates first,... 16 October 2023 6 min read
Ben Johnston in SQL Server SQL Server Security Features: Complete Guide Complete guide to SQL Server security features - TDE, Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, Row-Level Security, auditing, firewall rules, and... 15 October 2023 39 min read
Ben Johnston in SQL Server How to detect and mitigate Row-Level Security attacks in SQL Server (complete guide, part six) Detect and mitigate attacks against SQL Server Row Level Security (RLS) - side-channel timing attacks, excessive-error patterns, brute force attempts.... 03 October 2023 25 min read
Performance Aaron Bertrand in Performance Normalize strings to optimize space and searches While this article is specifically geared to SQL Server, the concepts apply to any relational database platform. The Stack Exchange... 02 October 2023 9 min read
T-SQL Programming Itzik Ben-Gan in T-SQL Programming T-SQL Fundamentals: Controlling Duplicates When people start learning a new field, for example T-SQL, it’s tempting to spend very little time trying to understand... 28 September 2023 20 min read
Ben Johnston in SQL Server SQL Server Row-Level Security: Attacks & vulnerabilities (complete guide, part five) Explore SQL Server Row-Level Security vulnerabilities - direct attacks, indirect attacks, and side-channel bypasses. Essential reading before deploying RLS in... 25 September 2023 22 min read
Database Administration Adrien Muhlemann in Database Administration Analyze and Tune SQL Server Statistics Over the years, SQL Server Statistics have been discussed in countless blog posts, articles, and presentations, and I believe that... 22 September 2023 34 min read
T-SQL Programming Drupal Grupal in T-SQL Programming Alternatives To SQL Server 2022 Built-in function GREATEST If you haven’t already heard, SQL Server 2022 introduced a new built-in system function called GREATEST. Simply put, it is... 18 September 2023 14 min read
Ben Johnston in SQL Server SQL Server Row-Level Security: Integration, anti-patterns, and alternatives (complete guide, part four) A complete guide to SQL Server Row-Level Security integration, anti-patterns, and alternatives.… 17 September 2023 20 min read
SQL Server Ben Johnston in SQL Server SQL Server Row-Level Security: Performance, tuning, and troubleshooting (complete guide, part three) Tune SQL Server Row Level Security performance: compare authentication methods (SESSION_CONTEXT, roles, AD), optimise access predicate indexing, and troubleshoot ETL... 10 September 2023 25 min read
SQL Server Ben Johnston in SQL Server SQL Server Row-Level Security: Setup, access predicates, and examples (complete guide, part two) Set up SQL Server Row Level Security with access predicates (inline TVFs) and security policies. Part 2 covers three setup... 03 September 2023 16 min read
Other Louis Davidson in Other Yet Another Reason to Not Use sp_ in SQL Server Object Names In 2012, Aaron Bertrand said most everything I knew (and a bit more) about the issues with using the sp_... 25 August 2023 6 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Working around schema drift in SQL Server At Stack Overflow, our environment has multiple implementations of a largely – but not 100% – identical schema. (By “schema,”... 14 August 2023 10 min read
SQL Server Ben Johnston in SQL Server A practical introduction to Row-Level Security in SQL Server (complete guide, part one) Row-Level Security in SQL Server lets identical queries return different rows per user. Here's how it works, when to use... 01 August 2023 16 min read
