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
2,258 reads
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)
5,801 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
1,029 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
848 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
669 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
646 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
727 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
Advice I Like: Ranch Rules
By Steve Jones
Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it. – from Excellent...
Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes
By SQLPals
Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes ...
Three Ways to Use Snowflake Data in Microsoft Fabric
By James Serra
Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting...
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Question of the Day
The Decoded Value
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers