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Querying Yesterday
One of the new features coming in SQL Server 2016 is the temporal table. It’s an interesting concept, one that many businesses have wanted for years. If you’re not sure what this is, we’ve got a collection of resources on Learning … Continue reading
The Work of the Ancients
I was reading a post from someone recently where they noted that they didn’t worry to much about the architecture of the system since it wouldn’t likely last very long. The poster had a comment that many systems are replaced … Continue reading
Data Masking for Convenience
I was at Microsoft in Redmond recently and heard an interesting comment from a SQL Server developer. I was debating the data masking feature with a friend, and we were torn on the value of this for various situations we’d … Continue reading
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Trying Spoon
I ran into Kenji Obata of Spoon earlier this year and we ended up chatting about their technology. If you’ve never heard of them, they use container technology to allow applications to run on a Windows host, but separated from … Continue reading