A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
Steven Sanderson toes a bit of tag replacement:
Hello, R enthusiasts! Today, we’re jumping into a common text processing task: extracting strings between specific characters. This is a great skill for data cleaning and manipulation, especially when working with raw text data. I’m going to show you how to achieve this using base R, the
stringrpackage, and thestringipackage. Let’s go!
Read on for examples.
Comments closedMika Sutinen thinks about how things could go wrong:
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis(FMEA) is a process of building more resilient systems, by identifying failure points in them. While it’s highly recommended to perform FMEA during the architecture design phase, it can be done at any time. More importantly, it should be reviewed periodically, and especially when the system architecture changes.
While you can do Failure Mode and Effect Analysis for whole systems, in this post, I will share an example on how to get started with FMEA for a database environment.
Read on for a description of the concept and some tips on how to perform one.
Comments closedMike Lynn talks Transparent Data Encryption:
Transparent Data Encryption uses certificates in its architecture for protecting your data while at rest. One attribute of a certificate is they have an expiration date. Certificates expire for a couple reasons, but the main reason is to enforce security. When a website certificate expires it forces the website owners to get a new certificate by proving they are who they say they are with a trusted third party.
SQL Server certificates that are used for TDE also have an expiration date, but these dates are only checked when you are creating a self-signed certificate using the “CREATE CERTIFICATE” T-SQL command. If you don’t supply an expiration date when creating your certificate SQL Server will assign one that is 1 year into the future.
Read on to learn more about how it works with TDE. I will say that with encrypting backups, SQL Server does care about the expiration date when it comes to creating a new encrypted backup, but not when it comes to restoring a backup.
Comments closedKoen Verbeeck copies some data:
We have a couple of Snowflake databases and would like to have that data available in Microsoft Fabric as well. Is there an easy solution to get the data quickly in Fabric? We don’t have many technical people on staff, so writing complex ETL is not an option.
Read on for more information on how it works. Mind you, you’re probably still writing the T and some of the L after using mirroring.
Comments closedMarc Lelijveld covers a new bit of functionality in Microsoft Fabric:
Yesterday, Microsoft released a new option called “branch-out” that allows you to easily setup a new branch from an existing Fabric workspace. Obviously, this was already possible but involved a lot of manual work. With this new option, you can create your own feature branch to work in isolation before you commit your work to the central repository.
In this blog, I will deep dive more in this branch-out feature, how it works, including some things to keep in mind working with this feature.
Read on to learn more about the feature.
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