Beware the automated backup window when running native SQL Server backups in RDS

Beware the automated backup window when running native SQL Server backups in RDS
If you’ve ever fired up an RDS instance...

Friday Reading 2017-08-04

It’s a bank holiday weekend here in Ireland so I’m looking forward to having the extra day off. Bought a...

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 Puzzle 2: Eight Queens

This puzzle was first proposed in 1848 by a composer of chess puzzles called Max Bezzel and has since spawned...

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...