Blog Post: When does it make sense to upgrade?
There’s a lot of versions of SQL Server available today. I’ve seen clients deploying new services on SQL Server 2015, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017 (yes we have a client on SQL Server 2017 already)...
View ArticleBlog Post: Happy New Year, Welcome to 2018
It’s 2018 and welcome to it. Here’s hoping that 2018 is a easier year than 2017 was. For me, that means no brain tumor this year. Hopefully that’s a easy bar to hit. Denny The post Happy New Year,...
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View ArticleBlog Post: Where Denny went during PASS and Live360 Events
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128733321@N05/17222900949/in If you were at the PASS Summit, Live360 in November, or SQL Saturday in Slovenia in December, you may have noticed that I couldn’t make it to...
View ArticleBlog Post: When Using Availability Group Listeners, Why Can I See Non-AG...
Yep. This is actually by design; and is because listeners can be tricky little fellas. When using a SQL Server Availability Group Listener, you can see any databases on the server that is hosting the...
View ArticleBlog Post: VMs in Azure region can’t talk to MySQL database service in same...
I ran into an interesting issue last week. I had VMs in the US West region of Azure which was unable to talk to the MySQL database service (PaaS) also in US West. The problem is turned out was due to a...
View ArticleBlog Post: Can I Use Azure Threat Detection On-Premesis?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123327536@N08/23891946434 The short answer here is no. The threat detection features that you see in Azure are not available in the on-premises product. This includes VMs...
View ArticleComment on Resources to Study for Exam 70-461
Microsoft Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Exam is not difficult now to pass with the help of experts made 70-461 dumps. These 70-461 dumps pdf are prepared to pass your Microsoft 70-461 exam in much...
View ArticleBlog Post: Azure precon at SQL Grillen in June
I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll be hosting a pre-con at SQL Grillen this June in Lingen, Germany titled “Designing Azure Infrastructure for Data Platform Projects” which you can see on the events...
View ArticleBlog Post: Why Don’t Universal Groups Work in SQL Server?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123327536@N08/23891946434 If you’ve tried using Universal Groups in Active Directory to access your SQL Servers, you may notice that the users who are members of these...
View ArticleBlog Post: Denny’s first public speaking event post surgery is…
In case you didn’t catch it, I’ve been out for a while, with good reason. Apparently, emergency brain surgery takes a while to recover from. I’m not back to 100% yet, but I’ll be speaking at my first...
View ArticleBlog Post: But why won’t you sponsor at my event?
Being a vendor/exhibitor at a few conferences has been an eye-opening experience for sure. Sadly exhibitors can’t sponsor at all the events that are available. It used to be the case that vendors could...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Summit 2018 Here I Come
I’m thrilled to be able to say that I’ll be presenting a precon at the PASS Summit 2018. This year I’ll be giving a precon on database security. In this session we’ll be going over the various...
View ArticleBlog Post: TEMP is A Four Letter Word
It’s not uncommon to observe rampant over reliance of database application code on TEMP tables, most often as a SQL language programming crutch. I have a theory as to why. Programmers are chiefly...
View ArticleBlog Post: It’s getting all cloudy in here
Not all cloud providers are the same. Some are flexible and will grow and shrink with your needs and business (Azure, Amazon, Google Cloud), and some will not (IBM, Rackspace, Other Bare Meta l...
View ArticleBlog Post: What Happened to My Database?
Every DBA has at some point asked: “What the heck happened to my database?” In this blog, we’ll review some of the more common scenarios where some little detail slips through the proverbial crack and...
View ArticleBlog Post: JSON documents in Azure and IF/THEN blocks
If you do any work in Azure you’ve probably done deployments using JSON scripts. Originally JSON in Azure didn’t support much, you could create objects, but if you put it in the JSON script, it would...
View ArticleBlog Post: Exchanging SQL Certificates with different service accounts can be...
Setting up Transparent Data Encryption, or Backup Encryption, or basically anything else where you need to restore a certificate to another SQL Server instance can get tricky as soon as yo u run the...
View ArticleBlog Post: General availability: SQL Database auto-failover groups – and it...
A really great feature in Azure SQL DB went GA today. That feature gives you and SQL DB the ability to automatically fail databases over to a Secondary replia, without having to configure your...
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