Adding Years, Months and Days
Adding Years, Months and Days to Years, Months and Days, with Bonus UK Public Holiday calculation.
2017-03-14
3,240 reads
Articles
Managing Azure SQL Database Recovery
Azure SQL Database offers several benefits, built into the underlying cloud infrastructure, that leverage resiliency and redundancy. You can take advantage of this functionality to facilitate failover and failback in response to events that affect availability of an Azure region.
2017-03-14
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2017-03-13
1,858 reads
Introducing DevOps to Farm Credit Services of America
Identifying a need for better collaboration between teams is only the first step to introducing DevOps workflows into your organization. You also need to define a common DevOps goal,...
2017-03-13
2,937 reads
Understanding Graphical Execution Plans - Part 1: Explaining the Plan
Understanding execution plans is a good basic skill for all DBA's and SQL developers. Darren White gives us an overview of what execution plans are in SQL Server and how they are used.
2017-03-10 (first published: 2014-02-18)
30,975 reads
TroubleShooting SQL Server Memory Consumption
Satnam Singh walks through the steps he took to troubleshoot a recent issue with memory consumption on a staging server.
2017-03-10
6,023 reads
Azure DWH Part 5: How to work with the command line in Azure SQL DW
This time we will work with the sqlcmd to handle our Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2017-03-09
1,192 reads
2017-03-09
562 reads
Exploring Azure Storage for SQL Server DBAs
If you need to run SQL Server in an Azure Virtual Machine, your choice of Azure storage will have a great effect on its performance. If performance is important, you are likely to discover complications and barriers in the storage options when you come to provision the server. If you get it wrong, you could end up with an expensive service. Joshua explains the value of using a lab environment to allow you to make well-informed VM storage decisions when the time comes to provision your production system.
2017-03-09
2,748 reads
Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise
Today during the Visual Studio launch event, we announced that we’ve partnered with Redgate to include Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017. Redgate Data Tools includes three components that extend DevOps practices to SQL Server and Azure SQL databases and increase your productivity while doing database development.
2017-03-09
5,294 reads
Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
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Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
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Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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