Surprised and Honoured and Proud
I have always been extremely proud to be a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, and lucky enough to be involved with both the PowerShell community as well as the...
2020-07-01
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Blog Posts
TIL: Dismount-DbaDatabase and Mount-DbaDatabase
We have a double feature for today’s dbatools blog post, as these two commands go hand-in-hand. Todays commands: Dismount-DbaDatabase and Mount-DbaDatabase Detach-DbaDatabase and Attach-DbaDatabase can be used as aliases....
2020-07-01 (first published: 2020-06-24)
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What is Azure SQL Database Serverless?
What is Azure SQL Database Serverless? When I hear the term serverless my mind gets confused. How can a database exist without a server? Azure is a cloud platform,...
2020-07-01
353 reads
What is Azure SQL Database Serverless?
What is Azure SQL Database Serverless? When I hear the term serverless my mind gets confused. How can a database exist without a server? Azure is a cloud platform,...
2020-07-01
7 reads
Daily Coping 30 Jun 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-06-30
26 reads
End an ALTER DATABASE immediately if anyone is in the database.
The development team has told me they’ve shut down the application, there are no more connections and I can go ... Continue reading
2020-06-30 (first published: 2020-06-11)
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New Pluralsight Course – Maintaining, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Kubernetes
My new course “Maintaining, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Kubernetes” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in head over to Pluralsight! ...
2020-06-30
5 reads
New Pluralsight Course – Maintaining, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Kubernetes
My new course “Maintaining, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Kubernetes” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in head over to https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/maintaining-monitoring-troubleshooting-kubernetes/! This course will...
2020-06-30
35 reads
New Pluralsight Course – Maintaining, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Kubernetes
My new course “Maintaining, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Kubernetes” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in head over to Pluralsight! This course will...
2020-06-30
8 reads
Power BI Monthly Digest – June 2020
In this month’s Power BI Digest Matt and I will again guide you through some of the latest and greatest Power BI updates this month.
2020-06-30 (first published: 2020-06-11)
354 reads
Blogs
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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