Understanding Shared Access Signature and Access Policy in Azure Storage
This article covers how you can give access with a shared key to Azure Storage Accounts and apply a policy for how users can access the files.
2022-06-15
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Articles
Introduction to artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence applications are all around us, but what does it really mean? In this article, Kumar Abhishek explains the history and progress of artificial intelligence.
2022-06-15
Summit 2022 Community Pre-cons have been announced
We’re delighted to announce the Summit community pre-conference sessions and speaker lineup! Choose from 14 pre-cons featuring Brent Ozar, Kimberly Tripp, Melissa Coates, Itzik Ben-Gan, Denny Cherry, and others, taking place on Monday Nov. 14 and Tuesday Nov. 15. Full-day pre-con sessions will cover topics including database performance tuning and troubleshooting, T-SQL querying, DAX, security, cloud VMs, Azure Data Factory, Azure infrastructure, parameter sniffing, Power BI, PostgreSQL, equity toolkits, and much more!
2022-06-15
Dealing with Transaction Log Growth
Introduction Relational databases are designed to track changes introduced to a database by data modification language (DML) commands. The fundamental reason for this construct is to ensure that changes are durable and that they can be rolled back reliably. The typical DML command used in SQL are INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE. When INSERT introduces new […]
2022-06-13 (first published: 2022-06-10)
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Power BI Report Builder Expressions - Date Functions
Learn about expressions and date functions in the Power BI Report Builder.
2022-06-13
18,123 reads
[Re-post] The 10 Benefits of Monitoring for Leaders
A third-party database monitoring tool is an investment that drives enormous value for the bottom line of a business in ten key ways, from simplifying cloud migration to retaining talent. Here's how.
2022-06-13
Recover Recently Closed Tab in SSMS
Learn different ways to recover a T-SQL script when using SQL Server Management Studio if SSMS is accidently shutdown without saving the script.
2022-06-13
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The benefits of database change management
Using a change management system for database code is a new idea for many database administrators. Grant Fritchey explains the many benefits of database change control.
2022-06-10
Optimizing my.cnf for MySQL performance
Database systems often need tuning for best performance. Lukas Vileikis explains to how to optimize my.cnf for MySQL performance.
2022-06-08
Why Database Monitoring Tools are Important for Senior Leaders
Matt Gordon is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and the Director of Data and Infrastructure at Rev.io. In this short video, he talks us through the 3 key reasons database monitoring tools are essential for him as a Director, and how they help him to lead a team successfully and productively.
2022-06-08
Blogs
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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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