Backup is extremely important for any DBA. Think of any disaster and backup will come to rescue users in adverse situation. Similarly, it is very critical that we keep our backup safe as well. If your backup fall in the hands of bad people, it is quite possible that it will be misused and become serious data integrity issue. Well, in this blog post we will see a practical scenario where we will see how we can use Backup Encryption to improve security of the backup.
An email from an old college friend landed my mailbox about UPDATE FROM SELECT Statement with Condition:
“Hey Pinal,”
I have two tables. I want to conditionally update data in one table based on another table. How can I do that. I have included sample scripts and an image for further explanation.
It has been a long time since SQL Server 2008 R2 got Service Pack Update. Microsoft has finally released SQL Server 2008 R2 service pack 3and its feature pack. SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 contains fixes to issues reported as well as Hotfix solutions have provided since SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 up to and including Cumulative Update 13.
Earlier I wrote a blog post about the Location of Natively Compiled Stored Procedure and Naming Convention. In this blog post, I wrote about location of natively compiled stored procedures.