SQL SSRS Express Edition Cannot Connect to Azure SQL Databases

This has bit a couple of clients recently, figured I'd put out a PSA.

Express editions of SQL Server Reporting Service,...

Upcoming Webinars: What’s New in SSRS and MDS 2016

I’ll be delivering two webinars for MSSQLTips.com in the coming months. The first one is about the – amazing – new features...

A quick fix for a full identity column.

A while back I wrote a post on everything I knew about identity columns. In it I mentioned the following:
Negative...

Becoming a Microsoft MVP

I was awarded the Microsoft MVP (data platform) award on Saturday.
On the four days a year (one per quarter) when...

Future DBA – Big Data -MongoDB 1

We have discussed hadoop and its HDFS management tools for big data system, which works horizontal scaling for data distribution...

Mastering Index – Clustered Index

This article is the part of series Mastering Index, in this particular article we will be exploring Clustered Index. Take...

PowerShell: Extending Modules – System Parameter measurement

The Microsoft Technet Guru Award  (August 2016) winning article  – Silver
PowerShell: Extending Modules – System Parameter measurement

PowerShell: Extending Modules – System Parameter measurement

Abstract
The...

Query Store – Quick Tour

The query store, Borko Novakovic Senior Program Manager from Microsoft calls this feature “Similar to an airplane’s flight data recorder”....

ReadyRoll for Database Deployments

This is the 4th post in the series named SQL Server and Continuous Integration. The first 3 posts covered the need...

Rename a Server with PowerShell

I’m sure many people are experimenting with VMs and SQL Server. If you’re like me, many of you just default...