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Using Alerts and Operators in SQL Server

Kenneth Igiri
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Introduction

With all the advancements in SQL Server and data, it feels great that such native SQL tools as Alerts and Operators are still available. They are the key SQL Server Agent features that are related to anything in SQL Server automation. 

Their roles are clear:

  • Alerts, when configured, let database administrators know when a specified event has occurred. 
  • An operator is an object defined within SQL Server that maps anyone or a group that can receive notifications when these events occur.

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Implementing Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2016 for Advanced Users

Haroon Ashraf
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This article tells about advanced methods of Full-Text Search usage for data professionals. It enables better search experience in their day-to-day database analysis.

Additionally, the readers will get beyond basic knowledge of Full-Text Search and its implementation. You will see the importance of advanced searching methodology using Full-Text Search to get quick and reliable results.

Prerequisites

First, let’s go through prerequisites since the article is focused on advanced uses of Full-Text Search.

T-SQL Know-How

The article assumes that to implement the walk-through(s), the readers are familiar with writing and running T-SQL scripts against databases with a basic understanding of SQL Server. Read More

Implementing Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2016 for beginners

Haroon Ashraf
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This article talks about the full-text search and its implementation for the beginners to get started.

Additionally, the readers will know the important things to make the full-text search work properly.

This article also highlights the importance of using Full-Text Search to match text patterns and meet similar sorts of requirements.

About Full-Text Search

Let’s understand the Full-Text Search with the help of definitions.

Simple Definition

Full-Text Search is used to optimally search character-based data for quick answers.

Microsoft Definition

Full-Text Search in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database (cloud version of SQL database) let users and applications run full-text queries against character-based data in SQL Server tables. Read More

How to install SQL Server vNext and Azure data studio on Ubuntu 18.04

Nisarg Upadhyay
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Azure data studio is a cross-platform database management tool. This tool is used to connect, configure, and administrate SQL Server instances installed locally or in the cloud. This tool can be installed on the following operating systems:

  1. Microsoft Windows
  2. Linux
    • Redgate
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
  3. macOS

Initially, Microsoft introduced this tool as the “SQL Server operations studio.” Later they renamed it Azure Data Studio. You can get more information about it here.

In this article, I am going to explain the step-by-step installation process of SQL Server 2017 and Azure data studio on Ubuntu. I have divided the article into two parts. Firstly, we will install SQL Server 2017, and later I will explain the process of installing Azure Data Studio. For demonstration purposes, I have created a virtual machine and installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it. You can download Ubuntu here. Read More

Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server for Advanced Users

Haroon Ashraf
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This article gives a high-level understanding of dynamic data masking in SQL Server along with its use cases, best practices and security implications for advanced SQL users (including developers and testers). Additionally, the readers of this article are going to get familiar with applying different types of dynamic data masking. The article also highlights the importance of advanced-level use of data masking in day-to-day database development and testing tasks.

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Deploying a SQL Server Docker Container

Kenneth Igiri
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Introduction

Containerization has become the dominant topic after the Server Virtualization and Cloud Computing Eras. While many thought leaders assert that current computing paradigms are not particularly new, containerization, as we have it today, can be viewed as having been born after cloud computing. Using containers on-premise allows us to perform migration to the cloud while building a containerized environment mimics the features of solutions deployed in the cloud.

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Move System Databases in the SQL Server Failover Cluster

Nisarg Upadhyay
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Recently, I was assigned to a project – our customer purchased a new SAN, and they wanted us to replace the old one with a new SAN. User and system databases utilized SAN, meanwhile, the operating system and SQL were installed on the server’s local disks. Lucky us..!! The idea was to move the existing user and system databases to a new SAN and keep the downtime as minimum as possible. So, to minimize the downtime, instead of reinstalling OS and SQL, we decided to use the following approach.

  1. Attach a new SAN to an existing server, create new drives on it, and add those drives to an existing failover cluster instance.
  2. Stop SQL Server, copy master, model, and msdb databases on new drives and start the SQL services.
  3. Move User databases to new drives and remove the old SAN.

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Filtering Data in T-SQL

Kenneth Igiri
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Introduction

In most scenarios when working with data, users do not require all the data in each instance of a query. T-SQL (and SQL of course) provide means of retrieving only part of a data set in a table or a similar structure. The WHERE, HAVING, TOP and OFFSET-FETCH clauses are used to accomplish this in different ways. Read More

How to Capture and Analyze SQL Server Events

Ahmad Yaseen
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When working as a SQL Server database administrator, you should have the skills to dive deeply into the ocean of the SQL Server Engine and find what is happening internally, in order to be able to detect, troubleshoot and fix any problem that you may face.
You can take benefits from the logs that are written by the SQL Server engine locally in the form of SQL Server logs or externally in the form of event logs, but you cannot consider them as the only source for your troubleshooting and tuning operations.

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Collation in SQL Server

Mohammed Moinudheen
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Introduction

You must have already heard the term “Collation” in SQL Server. Collation is a configuration that determines how character data sorting is done. This is an important setting that has a huge impact on how the SQL Server database engine behaves in dealing with character data. In this article, we aim to discuss collations in general and show a few examples of dealing with collations.

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