The world of Automatic Tuning – SQL Server 2017

Times are changing, 10 years ago I would never have thought that self-tuning databases would be available as a packaged...

Azure Portal – Bad Request

I had a strange issue recently when trying to login to the Azure Portal. Quite simply I would enter my...

T-SQL Tuesday #98 Round Up

Thank you to everyone that took the time to write and contribute, I enjoyed reading about how you conquered your...

Azure SQL Database – Optimizing For Ad-hoc Workloads

Today I found out that it is now possible to enable the setting optimize for ad-hoc workloads at the database...

Azure SQL Analytics

Azure SQL Analytics is currently in preview mode, still it is very impressive. The goal of this feature is to...

T-SQL Tuesday #98 – Your Technical Challenges Conquered

Welcome to the January 2018 edition of T-SQL Tuesday and I am your host BlobEater (Arun Sirpal).
If you do not...

A Basic Bot using Azure Bot Services

I wanted to break out my comfort levels and do something different from Azure SQL Database or straight SQL Server....

SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB – Going Parallel

DBCC CHECKDB has the ability to perform parallel checking of objects. However, it absolutely depends on the edition of SQL...

SQL Server Failed to Open Loopback Connection – What?

I could not read my error log on one of my local SQL Servers, when I executed the following code:

EXEC...

Moving to an Azure SQL Database via Command Line

I have moved many databases to Azure via different methods but I recently came across a new way. Well technically...