My Application is Getting SQL Timeout Errors, But What Query is the Problem?

This is something that comes up time and time again. A developer or member of the service desk comes up to me and says “SQL’s timing out, you see...

Passing Variables Values into Power Automate Desktop Flows

In this video Devin continues building on a previously created Power Automate Desktop Flow design and shows how to pass values into your Desktop Flow

Speaking: In person vs webinars vs recordings

I don’t speak all that often. A few times a year for the most part. Because of that I don’t ... Continue reading

SQL Server Agent failed to update history

Recently I have faced a very interesting issue. A good friend of mine and my batchmate Rakesh called me this morning. He told me that one of his customers...

A storage failover issue with SQL Server on Kubernetes

I’ve been running a proof of concept for SQL Server on Kubernetes over the last year or so (ok, probably longer than that…hey, I’m a busy guy ?? )...

Complete Guide for Virtual Machine in Google Cloud Platform with Demo

Complete Guide for Virtual Machine in Google Cloud.

1) Understanding of Compute Instances in GCP
2) Preemptible & Shielded VM Instances
3) Live Migration of VM instances in GCP
4) Compute Engine Dashboard...

Connecting to Azure Blobs in Power BI

The step-by-step process below walks through connecting to data housed in Azure Blob Storage from Power BI using a SAS token. There are many ways to grab your data...

Daily Coping 26 Jul 2021

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Filtering Extended Events Using Actions

Did you know, you can use Actions to Filter Extended Events? Well, you can. Filtering is one of the greatest ways in which Extended Events differentiates itself from other...

Is 18TB of Storage Enough?

Come to find out, nope, probably not.  My good friend Jim Donahoe (blog|twitter)was very nice to tell me that he’s running 100TB of storage in his house across multiple Synology...