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What do you do when you need to enforce referential integrity across databases on the same SQL Instance, or maybe on a different instance or server altogether? This kind of eventuality occurs often in data warehousing where sharding I used to increase performance, or sharded OLTP databases separated for performance, often seen in MySQL large scale implementations. Some implementations attempt […]

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Microsoft SQL Server security best practices checklist – Part -1

Microsoft SQL Server security best practices checklist – Part -1 Author: Basit A. Farooq Database technologies are an essential component of many information systems because they store a large amount of sensitive corporate data such as customer information and other confidential business data. Because of this, it is not wrong to say that databases such as SQL Server are the...

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Azure SQL Server Database

(Derek Wilson) You can create and leverage cloud based SQL Server instances using Microsoft Azure. However, if you have never used the Azure portal it can be a bit challenging to get started. This post will show you how the steps required to create an Azure SQL Server database.