When working with SQL Server, you often need to retrieve a specific number of records per group. For instance, you might want to fetch top 3 most recent orders for each customer in your database. There are multiple ways to achieve this, but in this…

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a powerful feature in SQL Server that helps secure sensitive data by encrypting database files. In other words, it prevents restoring your backup files on a different server if you don’t have appropriate certificate and key. It doesn’t matter if…