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| | | The GDPR is Coming to the US Over the last year or so, I've been working on understanding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that is the data privacy law in Europe. This has been law for a couple years, but enforcement just started in May of 2018. Along the way, I spent time looking at other countries and the various types of data protection laws they've enacted or are preparing. The US was included in this research, though in a woeful, sad way. The US hasn't had much in the way of data protection, at least not at the national level. Since the US is a large market, many of us wondered if their reluctance would influence the rest of the world to care less about data protections or even weaken the GDPR by attracting more business away from Europe. That would be disappointing, as I think the state of data security, protections for humans, and privacy rights are extremely poor in the US. At the state level, New York introduced the SHIELD Act, though it hasn't been passed. Most other US states aren't working on anything, but California has actually passed a law, similar to the GDPR. I'm happy to see this, and my hope is that this pressures Congress to pass something that will apply to all 50 states. However, even if they don't, perhaps California will influence the rest of us. I suspect many companies will want to do business in the state, but not want separate rules for one state v others, so they'll just adopt CA standards. The bill was a little rushed, in part to head off a ballot initiative. Whether this is good or bad remains to be seen, but plenty of the large technology companies don't like it. Google and Facebook for sure, but I'm sure many tech companies that make profits from collecting, analyzing, using, and selling data are going to be upset. This could cause issues with their business models, and my guess is they'll fight any fines and appeal court rulings for years. Personally I understand there is business value in data, and there are plenty of good uses of data. What I don't like, or appreciate, is companies looking for new ways to gather data on me without limits, and certainly without my consent or understanding. We don't really know how valuable and potentially dangerous data is about each of us, and we ought to have some rights and control over it's use, storage, and retention. Whether this will change our work as data professionals remains to be seen. My guess is we might finally get to treat data as not only an asset of the company, but as an asset of individuals that we need to safeguard and protect. Steve Jones from SQLServerCentral.comJoin the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums |
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| | | | | Kumar Attangudi Perichiappan Perichappan from SQLServerCentral.com SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is a toolset which provides an environment for you to carry out all your database design work in SQL Server. It can be used to build to build SQL Server relational databases. More » |
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| | | Today's Question (by Steve Jones): | I need to split a string into separate items. I have a string and some code that I am experimenting with. I don't want to DECLARE @cars VARCHAR(200) = 'Porsche, Ferrari, Bentley, Jaguar,Range Rover' SELECT * FROM STRING_SPLIT(@cars, ', ') What happens? |
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| Yesterday's Question (by Steve Jones): When I create a new Azure SQL Database, must I include this in a resource group? Assume I am not using the classic deployment method.
Answer: No, but this will exist as a part of a default resource group for your subscription Explanation: The classic model for deploying Azure resources did not include grouping. However, when the Resource Manager was introduced, Resource Groups were added and all resources were added to a default group. Now if you choose the classic deployment model and create resources without a resource group, they are still added to a default resource group. Ref: Azure Resource Manager vs. classic deployment: Understand deployment models and the state of your resources - click here » Discuss this question and answer on the forums |
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| | | | Harsha Bhagat from SQLServerCentral.com As a DBA, we have to test our backups with restore testing. To test the restore manually it does becomes a bit of lengthy process. To ease out the process of copy and pasting all the files what we want to test the restore the procedure will help. Requirments:. 1. Please restore the database and leave the database in non-recovery mode. 2. Copy all the transaction log files into one folder location and make sure that the service account has correct permission to read and write the files. 3. execute the procedure as below. DBA_Restore_TransactionLog 'DatabaseName', 'S:\backup' If error happens like below Server: Msg 4305, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The log in this backup set begins at LSN 2413977000000004100001, which is too late to apply to the database. An earlier log backup that includes LSN 2413630000000004100001 can be restored. Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally. To know what files were picked up use the table Temp_FileList Id Dates Times Filenames ----------- -------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 23/06/2018 08:00 DBName_20180623_080002.trn 2 23/06/2018 07:19 DBName_20180623_071904.trn 3 23/06/2018 07:18 DBName_20180623_071442.trn 4 23/06/2018 07:06 DBName_20180623_070609.trn 5 23/06/2018 07:06 DBName_20180623_070613.trn 6 23/06/2018 07:01 DBName_20180623_070007.trn 7 23/06/2018 06:00 DBName_20180623_060003.trn 8 23/06/2018 05:00 DBName_20180623_050002.trn 9 23/06/2018 04:00 DBName_20180623_040003.trn To see what the procedure has executed, use the table Temp_ExecuteFileList select * from Temp_ExecuteFileList Exec_Script ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RESTORE LOG Vectus_stoke FROM disk = 'F:\backup\DBName_20180623_000002.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; RESTORE LOG Vectus_stoke FROM disk = 'F:\backup\DBName_20180623_010003.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; RESTORE LOG Vectus_stoke FROM disk = 'F:\backup\DBName_20180623_020002.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; RESTORE LOG Vectus_stoke FROM disk = 'F:\backup\DBName_20180623_030002.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; RESTORE LOG Vectus_stoke FROM disk = 'F:\backup\DBName_20180623_040003.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; RESTORE LOG Vectus_stoke FROM disk = 'F:\backup\DBName_20180623_050002.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; RESTORE LOG Vectus_stoke FROM disk = 'F:\backup\DBName_20180623_060003.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; RESTORE LOG Vectus_stoke FROM disk = 'F:\backup\DBName_20180623_070007.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; RESTORE LOG Vectus_stoke FROM disk = 'F:\backup\DBName_20180623_070613.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; More » |
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