Today’s database landscape requires strategies for ensuring optimal performance and resource allocation for your workloads. SQL Server’s Resource Governor is a feature that often flies under the radar but can be essential for fine-tuning the performance of your SQL Server environment. This blog post aims to demystify the Resource Governor, explaining its functionality, utility, and walking you through a practical example of setting it up for different user groups.
Category: Tutorial
Implementing Row-Level Security in SQL Server
Row-level security (RLS) in SQL Server is a feature that allows database administrators to control access to rows in a database table based on the characteristics of the users accessing them. This can be particularly important in environments where data privacy and security are critical. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to implement RLS in SQL Server.
Contained Databases in SQL Server: Improving Database Portability and Security
Contained databases in SQL Server signify a paradigm shift in the world of database management, marking a move towards more self-contained and autonomous database systems. This approach redefines the traditional relationship between databases and the SQL Server instances they reside in, bringing a multitude of benefits in terms of management, portability, and isolation.
Optimizing SQL Server 2022: Leveraging Auto-Drop Statistics
Auto-Create statistics is a well-known feature critical for the database performance. When one statistic is auto created, changing the table structure is not blocked by the presence of the statistic. An auto-created statistics is also dropped automatically when a schema change happens. On the other hand, if the statistic is created by the user, any schema change will be blocked by the presence of the statistic. The Auto-Drop setting on a statistic is a new SQL Server 2022 feature to change this behavior.
SQL Server on Linux: Getting Started with SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu 22.04
Microsoft’s extension of SQL Server to the Linux platform marked a significant shift in its strategy, recognizing Linux as a major player in enterprise environments. This move expanded the reach of SQL Server to a larger audience and provided more deployment options for organizations. Today we will explore installing and configuring SQL Server on an Ubuntu 22.04 Linux host.