A part of DBA’s and developer’s role is to migrate SQL Server databases between hosts or migrate from a local development environment to a live hosted environment. It requires copying all database objects such as database schema, tables, stored procedures, functions, indexes, etc. For this, different methods can be used depending on a requirement such as a database backup restore, object SQL scripts, BACPAC files, etc.
January 12, 2021
This article will explain how to export data from SQL databases to Excel file format by using two methods:
The SELECT statement in SQL is the most used of the DML statements and it’s used for fetching data from tables in SQL Server. This article is intended for DBAs and developers who want to get familiar with all the major components of the SELECT statement and what this statement is all about.
January 4, 2021
SQL databases can contain a lot of data, including a lot of sensitive data. This sensitive information can easily be misused. Mask SQL Server data is of great importance when the SQL database contains a lot of sensitive data. Microsoft has offered a dynamic data masking feature that has been implemented in SQL Server 2016 and later versions, as one of the solutions for protecting sensitive data in SQL databases.
December 22, 2020
Frequently, developers and DBAs need to find SQL objects in databases for which name you only partially remember. Searching manually these objects can be a time-consuming job, especially when a database has a large number of objects.
December 7, 2020
This article will show a couple of ways of how to determine SQL object dependencies between SQL Server objects and how to safely rename a SQL Server object without compromising referenced integrity and break dependencies between objects using the ApexSQL Fundamentals Toolkit for SQL Server pack.
November 30, 2020
Tracking data changes helps us to understand moving parts in a database, learn about changing trends, easily recover from unwanted data changes or data loss, and adds more context to the auditing documentation. In this article, we will introduce ways of tracking database changes by exploring some out of many database auditing mechanisms in the SQL Server ecosystem.
November 27, 2020
In the previous article, we have described How to collect information about SQL audits and database mail using SQL documentation and the problem that topic envelopes.
November 27, 2020
One of the problems that can be solved with SQL auditing technologies in conjunction with SQL Server transaction logs is finding specific events, i.e. specific database or data change, capturing the event, and resolving it as wanted or unwanted. Depending on methodology and tools this can be an easy or complicated task. The ApexSQL Audit tool provides the solution wherein a few easy steps a specific event can be audited, with high granularity and precision. The additional problem surfaces out in case unwanted change occurs, how to easily revert those changes? The usual methodology consists of creating SQL Server transaction log backups and restoring them. But restoring implies reverting the database to a specific moment in time, thus reverting even wanted changes.
November 17, 2020
Manual replication of a SQL Server is still nothing out of the ordinary, so keeping some SQL documentation about the ‘original’ SQL Server is recommended to use as a reference. SQL Documentation can come in handy especially when server level objects have to be reconstructed manually on the new instance, for example, SQL audit settings or database mail. Having the T-SQL scripts also with this documentation for recreating those objects will certainly simplify the actions needed for the task.
November 17, 2020
In day-to-day work, DBAs and developers often have to search SQL Server data especially tables that contain specific data. In SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), or Visual Studio, there is no simple solution to performing such tasks.
November 16, 2020
In the current cyberage, data protection and database auditing have been the number one priority for any organization. Control assessment procedures and techniques nowadays are heavily dependent on the compliance regulatory frameworks and their respective requirements.
November 3, 2020
In the world of today, information can be classified into sensitive and non-sensitive data. The sensitive data is classified as data that contains private, personally identifiable, financial, and security information, whose discovery can be misused and damage the reputation of a person or an organization.
November 2, 2020
One of the most basic and repetitive operations in the SQL world is to search SQL Server data. Usually used to locate specific row items, sometimes for exporting purposes, or check if dependent values are properly populated.
October 22, 2020
In the current digital age, security controls and data privacy and protection has been an influential factor in how organizations over the globe store and protect business data, especially since the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) establishes a new bar for compliance, security, and privacy rights of the individuals.
October 2, 2020
The overall security of SQL Server instances is a broad topic. Security breaches happen often, and, in most cases, they are resolved quickly, and the level of security is tightened, but the best and most desirable scenario is to avoid them entirely. This can be done by taking proactive actions in analyzing possible security risks and patching them before the least desirable scenario happens. With SQL Server environments being dynamic, there is an almost constant need for better security and management of SQL Server instances.
September 25, 2020
When it comes to using the SQL Server instance, a DBA must ensure no one unauthorized, or outside of the organization, should have any privileges that will allow him to change any SQL Server configuration. Preventing this scenario will provide an additional layer of security that will result in decreasing the level of SQL Server’s vulnerability and its exposure to malicious attacks.
September 25, 2020
This article will introduce a couple of ways for MySQL search data in tables. First, how to search for data in tables will be shown using the classic Where clause and Like operator. Then, MySQL full-text search feature will be introduced and, in the end, how to perform data search will be shown using a third-party extension for VS Code, called ApexSQL Database Power Tools for VS Code.
September 11, 2020
Many developers, during their work, are required from their superiors to export MySQL data to various file formats like Excel, CSV, JSON, or HTML file.
August 28, 2020
SQL complete is one of the best time-saving tools for any DBA who works on database objects and data stored inside these objects using T-SQL. It’s in the job description to be very familiar with T-SQL both from a DDL and DML perspective. Data Definition Language requires writing statements like CREATE, ALTER, DROP, etc. and Data Manipulation Language applies to commands like SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, etc.
August 26, 2020
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