Always Encrypted

By David Postlethwaite

Always Encrypted is new features in SQL Server 2016 and it is also available in Azure SQL Database....

Monday Coffee 2017-05-01

Morning all, I know it’s a bank holiday in the UK & Ireland today but some of us still have to...

SQL Saturdays – down memory lane

A casual twitter-conversation with Karla Landrum and some other peeps led me down memory lane on older events. Our SQL...

Wait Statistics integration inside the Query Store in SQL Server vNext

I remember writing an article about Query specific wait statistics being available inside execution plans in SQL Server 2016 SP1....

Creating an App Service in Azure that connects to an Azure SQL Database.

Using the methodology listed in my previous blog post on creating an Azure SQL Database we now have a Continuous Integration...

Data Channel Interview - 06 - Manohar Punna on SQL Azure Migrations

Here we go for the 6th interview on #DataChannel. Manohar Punna, MVP and Data Platform Geeks President discusses "Migrations to SQL Azure" on #DataChannel. Manohar, in this interview provides...

Data Channel Interview - 06 - Manohar Punna on SQL Azure Migrations

Here we go for the 6th interview on #DataChannel. Manohar Punna, MVP and Data Platform Geeks President discusses "Migrations to...

Data Channel Interview - 06 - Manohar Punna on SQL Azure Migrations

Here we go for the 6th interview on #DataChannel. Manohar Punna, MVP and Data Platform Geeks President discusses "Migrations to SQL Azure" on #DataChannel. Manohar, in this interview provides...

Removing an Azure SQL Database using PowerShell..

In this post we will remove some databases located in Azure.
This related to my last post where I am cleaning...

Multiple usage of functions to ensure “value” is not null? – NO

In this post I’m describing a piece of code that is not well written. The author (unknown) had applied three functions for a variable to ensure it never accepts...