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Securing SQL Server: Transparent Data Encryption Mon, 30 Jan 2023 Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a feature of Microsoft SQL Server that enables the encryption of a databases data and log files, as well as the encryption of backups, to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access. TDE encrypts the dat Read more… Complete Access to all our Online SQL Server …

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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a feature of Microsoft SQL Server that enables the encryption of a databases data and log files, as well as the encryption of backups, to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access. TDE encrypts the data at the page level, meaning that the data is encrypted as it is written to the disk and decrypted when …

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Primary keys are an essential element of database design and are used to uniquely identify each record in a table. In SQL Server, primary keys are implemented using a constraint that ensures that each row in a table has a unique value for the designated primary key column. There are several benefits to using primary keys in SQL Server. First …

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Wait statistics, in the context of SQL Server, refer to the amount of time that a query spends waiting to access data in the database. When a client application requests data from the database, the request is placed in a queue and the client application must wait for its turn to access the data. The time that the query spends …

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In SQL Server, the fill factor is a configuration option that determines how much space is left on each page of an index when it is created or reorganized. The fill factor specifies the percentage of space that will be filled on each page, with the remaining space left as free space. The fill factor is specified as a percentage …

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Synonyms in SQL Server are a useful feature that allow developers to create an alias or alternate name for an object in the database. This can be especially helpful when working with complex or large databases, as it allows developers to use more descriptive or intuitive names for objects instead of the default names assigned by the system. There are …

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To find the most used data files on SQL Server, you can use the sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats dynamic management view. This view contains statistics about the I/O activity of all the data files in the database. To use this view, you can run the following query: This query returns the following columns: The query orders the results by the num_of_bytes_written column in …

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