Server Roles and Azure Active Directory in an Azure SQL Database
This video explains the built in server roles in an Azure SQL Server and demonstrates how to give a login...
2017-11-29
612 reads
Gethyn Ellis
SOS - Save Our Souls or SQL Operations Manager
On Wednesday Microsoft Announced the release in preview of SQL Operations Studio (SOS)... What is that I hear you cry!...
2017-11-17
620 reads
Creating a Linked Server to an Azure SQL Database
Why would you create a Linked Server to an Azure SQL Database?
If you work in a hybrid environment with some...
2017-11-15
1,351 reads
Configuring Azure Data Sync
In this video David demonstrates how to configure Azure Data Sync 2.0 to synchronise an Azure SQL database with an...
2017-11-10 (first published: 2017-11-01)
1,393 reads
Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases
Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases is pretty simple and straight forward,as long as you know what you need in...
2017-11-08
340 reads
Ebook: Putting Your Head in the Cloud: An Introduction to Cloud Computing and Azure SQL Database
David is delivering his Microsoft Azure for the SQL DBA talk this weekend in SQL Saturday Denmark. Go and see...
2017-10-05
496 reads
Kerberos Explained - Taming the Beast: Kerberos for the SQL Server DBA
David has a talk that he delivers at SQL Saturdays, all about Kerberos authentication. What it is, how it works...
2017-09-04
781 reads
New in SQL Server 2017: Graph Databases
David has recorded and published a video of his presentation on SQL Server Graph Database. In his video which you...
2017-08-31 (first published: 2017-08-21)
2,659 reads
SQL Server Express v SQL Server Developer Edition
SQL Server Express v SQL Server Developer Edition
Over the weekend I received the following in an email from Ali Ahmad...
2017-08-01
48,370 reads
Video Tutorial: Creating a SQL Server Databases
In this Video tutorial we will look at creating a SQL Server database using both Management Studio and TSQL. We’ll...
2017-07-31
576 reads
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Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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