Power BI and Data Security – Free User’s Cannot Share, Read Only in Premium

As part of the Power BI Premium release, Microsoft changed how the “free users” in Power BI work within the...

SQL Server 2017 RC1 is Here

And I’ve got it.

Glenn Berry posted a a link to the MSDN blog and almost immediately a note that the...

SQLSat Planner's Calendar

We just completed our 9th annual SQLSaturday Baton Rouge. In my post-mortem of the event, I've updated and tweaked the...

The 2017 Data Platform Summit

I’m off in a couple days to India for a week of vacation and then the 2017 Data Platform Summit....

Automating installation of Docker & SQL command line tools on Linux

I’ve been getting to grips with Docker SQL Containers on Linux (specifically Ubuntu 16.04) and have found that I’ve been...

Checking Your Database Properties–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Connect to Microsoft Azure Subscription using Windows PowerShell – Part 2

In my previous blog we learnt to connect to Azure subscription by importing azure license setting file. In this blog...

Default Database Reports – Disk Usage by Table

Every now and again you need to know how big a table is. Or several tables. Or all of the...

SQL Server 2016 helps with Best Practices

In order for your SQL Server instance to run optimally, there are many SQL Server best practices that you need...

The times they are ae-changing

I have been quite on this blog for a couple of weeks now, and there are a couple of reasons...