So, this month's T-SQL Tuesday topic is to think about a non-SQL Server technology that we want to learn. For me, I'm going to pick machine learning. As a DBA, I've always looked at machine learning as a thing for the BI guys. I'm a DBA after all why do I care about that? Well,... Continue Reading →
A while back I wrote a post, Digitally Signing a Stored Procedure To Allow It To Run With Elevated Permissions Recently Manish Kumar asked an interesting question, what do you do if your proc accesses multiple or even all the databases on the server? So, instead of giving him a fuzzy answer in reply, I thought... Continue Reading →
Table variables, they're nasty, dirty little things that perform about as well as a Robin Reliant in a crosswind, right? Well you're not going to have me argue with you there. But how many of us have got these little beasts floating around in their production code with absolutely nothing that we can do about... Continue Reading →
In my recent post, Installing External Modules into SQL Server’s Python I had a look at just how simple it is to import external modules into Python so that they can be used within SQL Server. In this post I'd like to show you a little something to demonstrate how we can integrate one of these modules... Continue Reading →
It's the second Tuesday of the month which must mean only one thing... We're all skint and payday feels like a long way off??? Not quite, well maybe... but it's also T SQL Tuesday! This month's invitation comes from Steve Jones and he's asking us to write about triggers and our experiences of them. So...... Continue Reading →
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So Microsoft have integrated Python into SQL Server, from the moment I heard that I thought to myself, "wow, this is exciting stuff" and not just for the machine learning, BI guys that it was marketed at. It's exciting for us DBAs too, my head was in a buzz with all the things that we... Continue Reading →
Easily Keep Track of All Your SQL Servers We know what it's like when you've got 101 SQL Servers to manage, or even just a couple. It can be almost impossible to keep track of all these servers, their versions, the databases that they host, permissions, dependencies... the list goes on. We developed the Undercover... Continue Reading →
I'm sure that we all know that SQL Server includes all sorts of interesting functionality to allow us to encrypt our data and like with all encryption techniques, that data is encrypted using keys. In SQL Server we've got a number of different keys, we've got the Service Master Key, Database Master Keys, Symmetric... Continue Reading →
