Friday Reading 2017-07-28

Hope you all had a good week. Been pretty chilled out here so I’ve been reading…
Announcing Azure Container Instances

Microsoft blog...

How to Configure TDE database with AlwaysOn using the Azure Key Vault in SQL Server 2016

One of the recent tasks that I have undertaken seemed rather like an experiment to me. I set out to...

How to display more text in SSMS

Today’s blog post is going to be a short one but can be very helpful if you’re new to SQL...

Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 1: A Quick Review of the Hartley Function

By Steve Bolton
…………This long-delayed series of amateur self-tutorials has been in the works ever since I began writing my A...

Power BI NFL Football Stats Comparisons and Analysis Report is now available!

For the past few years I’ve combined my love of professional football and analytics by releasing a series of Power...

PowerShell $env Variables

I was playing with containers the other day, reading a Simple Talk article on the topic, and noticed the code...

Speaking at SQL Saturday Denver (#673)

Wow, I can hardly contain my excitement.  I was selected to speak at SQL Saturday Denver on September 16, 2017.  I’ll...

Using Test-DbaOptimizeForAdHoc

I really like the dbatools project. This is a series of PowerShell cmdlets that are built by the community and...

Azure Labs–Minor Cluster Issues for SQL Server Setup

During the process of building an Azure lab, I ran into a place where my cluster was not completely validated....

Default reports in SSMS

As DBAs our stock in trade is information and there is certainly an impressive amount available. The diagnostic views are...