Kerberos Configuration Manager for SQL Server v3
By David Postlethwaite
I’m speaking about Kerberos for the SQL DBA at SQL Saturdays in Oslo, Gothenburg and Utrecht in September...
2015-08-05
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Gethyn Ellis
Creating an Azure SQL Database
By David Postlethwaite
Once you have logged in to the Azure Management Portal you can start to create an Azure SQL...
2015-05-28 (first published: 2015-05-21)
5,802 reads
Microsoft Azure SQL Databases – Power and Performance
By David Postlethwaite
On the Database Scale page we can decide on the performance level that we want our database to...
2015-05-28
1,030 reads
Microsoft Azure SQL Database – Dashboard
By David Postlethwaite
Once you have created your database you can now start to manage and configure it.
There are six...
2015-05-26
850 reads
Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
By David Postlethwaite
The URL for Microsoft Azure is http://azure.microsoft.com.
Make sure you have an up to date browser because parts of...
2015-05-19
551 reads
Putting Your Head in the Clouds - Microsoft Azure
By David Postlethwaite
Microsoft Azure
Let’s take a look at the Microsoft Cloud offering. Originally called Windows Azure it was renamed in...
2015-05-14
672 reads
Putting Your Head in the Clouds 3 – Cloud Service Offerings
By David Postlethwaite
Cloud Service Models
There are three main service models in the cloud. You will see these buzz words being...
2015-05-12
648 reads
Putting Your Head in the Clouds 2 –Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Solutions
By David Postlethwaite
If you are thinking about using Cloud Computing then it’s worth considering the pros and cons.
Advantages of...
2015-05-07
560 reads
Putting Your Head in the Clouds 1 – An introduction to Cloud Computing
By David Postlethwaite
Although the concept of Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure have been around for a number of years it...
2015-05-06
730 reads
SQL Server 2016 Preview...Coming this Summer
It was announced yesterday at the Ignite conference that we’ll be getting a summer preview of SQL Server 2016. With...
2015-05-05
678 reads
Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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