Data governance must be included in DevOps practices. William Brewer explains how to define business policies and standards to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and bring data governance to all aspects of continuous delivery.
2018-06-13
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One of the most important tools for query tuning is ability to view execution plans. They are even portable; you can send an execution plan to get advice from someone who doesn't have access to the underlying data. Have you even considered that sensitive information might travel along with the plans? Hugo Kornelis explains how execution plans affect data protection.
2018-04-30
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News reports about data breaches are common occurrences. Even the companies that exist to keep our data safe are not immune. William Brewer answers the question about data breaches that you may be too shy to ask.
2018-03-07
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect organisations in countries around the world, not just those in Europe. The GDPR regulates how personal data is stored, moved, handled, and destroyed. Not following the regulation will lead to dire consequences for your organisation. As a data professional or developer, you may have many questions and might be wondering how it will affect the way you will do your job. William Brewer answers common questions about the GDPR that you were too shy to ask.
2017-12-14
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A short description of our experience with Veritas Netbackup on MS SQL Server AG Groups. This article does not give a full description of the procedure for configuring netbackup but highlights a few pitfalls which we think some people will find very useful.
2017-07-18
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I don’t doubt for a minute that on a certain level you’re sick to death of people talking about the Wanna Cry ransomware. However, bear with me, we need to go through it just a little more because it actually has some bearing on us as data professionals. OK, more than some bearing, it’s a […]
2017-06-05
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Hi SRB,I don't know if a push subscription would have the same error because the publisher does not know the address of the subscriber, as the ip address may constantly change etc. Plus the nature of the system is such that only a pull subscription is feasible.I would assume it would have the same error […]
2005-05-29
Malcolm,Your point is well made and it is good advice.ThanksChristiaan
2005-05-27
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I would save your XLS as an MSDOS CSV file. Use an Active-X Transform and format each source column in the manner expected at the destination:Function Main () '** Force text values from column one DTSDestination("foo") = Left(Trim( "" & DTSSource("Col001"), 50) '** Force non-nullable numeric field with default to zero from […]
2005-05-27
2005-05-25
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