Failing to plan is planning to fail. When organizations first begin implementing Azure networking, the focus is often on the immediate requirements: connectivity, security, and performance for your databases...
2025-09-22 (first published: 2025-09-03)
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In a recent video, I took a hands-on look at the Next Gen General Purpose service tier in Azure SQL Managed Instance—and it brings some exciting advancements to the...
2025-07-04 (first published: 2025-06-19)
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AI and ChatGPT are all the rage these days. Seems like around every corner is another break-through in how we interact with data, regardless of if that data is...
2025-01-20 (first published: 2024-11-01)
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Last Updated on September 24, 2024 by John Morehouse Years ago, I saw the wave of the future and that wave was Cloud. The Cloud is not a fad...
2024-10-07 (first published: 2024-09-24)
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After a long hiatus of not blogging, I’m trying to get back into writing. So, to kick it off first thing in 2024, I’m speaking! I’m honored to have been...
2024-01-19
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Last Updated on January 18, 2024 by John Morehouse Did you know that you can deploy native VMWare virtual machines into Azure? Yeah, I didn’t either until earlier this...
2023-12-29
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In this post, I discuss about not forgetting to allow for additional head room when planning out new hardware, especially for HA/DR needs.
The post Accounting for Virtualization Head Room...
2023-12-07
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Last Updated on January 24, 2023 by John Morehouse © 2022 – 2023, John Morehouse. All rights reserved.
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2022-12-09
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Last Updated on January 24, 2023 by John Morehouse In today’s modern world, virtualization is often used to help mitigate cost as well as to provide flexibility in scaling...
2022-07-08
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Last Updated on January 23, 2023 by John Morehouse Synology has a wide range of capabilities but sometimes it still falls short. In a previous post, I mentioned moving...
2022-05-06
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Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
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If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
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I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers