Add TDE enabled database to an Always on Availability group using AutoSeeding

This blog explains the steps needed to set up Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and database in Always on AG group using AutoSeeding method. (Applies to 2016 and above).

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Create and monitor elastic agent job for Azure SQL database.

This blog demonstrates the detailed steps needed to create an SQL Database backup in a blob container. To begin, with you need to list down the available backups, and restore them from a blob container to a Prem SQL Database.

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Microsoft SQL Server - Add Articles to Existing Replication Without Reinitializing Snapshot

Replication can be defined as the process via which Data and database objects are copied and distributed between databases, and then synchronized to ensure consistency. Transactional replication is typically used in scenarios requiring high server throughput, Reporting and data warehouses; improving scalability and availability; integrating data from disparate sources. Batch processing can be offloaded, heterogeneous data can be integrated, and multiple sites can be integrated.

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How to setup a heterogeneous database link using dg4odbc

Nowadays companies use different database technologies for keeping their data and often they need to access data from one data source to another data source. However, as the data is on different database products, it does not work, and this takes up lots of effort on part of the developer to intermix data between different databases.

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Intro to MSSQL Server Audit Feature

It is always a challenge to configure audits and capture schema changes for a longer duration in the SQL Server. These details are captured by default traces; however, their retention is limited. Also, it is quite a task to set up SQL audits in every user database.

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Backup SQL database to blob container and restore it to another Server

This blog demonstrates the detailed steps needed to create an SQL Database backup in a blob container. To begin, with you need to list down the available backups, and restore them from a blob container to a Prem SQL Database.

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Introduction to Change Data Capture (CDC)

What is Change Data Capture (CDC)?

Change data capture (CDC) uses SQL Server agent to capture DML activities like deleting, updating, and inserting on a table.

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Shrinking of SQL Databases using Notruncate Command

This blog discusses the process of shrinking the data file of a SQL server database by using the option DBCC shrink file using the Notruncate option.

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Backup Compression for TDE enabled DBs

The SQL Server 2008 and later versions provide many powerful features, and among those, Backup Compression and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) are very useful to compress your backups and Enable the encryption at database level. However, if we use both these options on the same database then we have the limitation of leveraging both these features up to SQL 2016 version.

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Procedure of taking backup of MS SQL Database

In this blog, I have discussed the process of taking backup of MS SQL Database, the types of backups, and steps to take up the backup.

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