I’ve come across another error message in my seemingly never-ending battle with Azure Key Vault. A while back I couldn’t delete a resource group because of Key Vault soft-delete....
2020-01-28
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Last year Azure SQL Database Managed Instance saw the introduction of bring your own key (BYOK) functionality for transparent data encryption (TDE). This functionality has been in the singleton...
2020-01-31 (first published: 2020-01-24)
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I recently posted that I was doing my annual Azure sandbox rebuild but this time I wanted to do things a little differently…all in PowerShell. Unlike previous years when...
2019-12-09 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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I’m a creature of habit. I have my routine when I get to my hotel room on business trips. I have a way I like my email and notes...
2019-11-27 (first published: 2019-11-19)
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It’s that time of the year again. No, not fall, although I do love the weather change that’s around the corner. It’s time for me to rebuild my Azure...
2019-11-14 (first published: 2019-11-06)
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Most people connect to a database, create tables, run update statements, tune queries, add indexes, and never once think about the underlying data and log files that support all...
2019-09-04
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Any database professional that has been around the Microsoft world for more than about 3 minutes will be familiar with the old, faithful sample dataset created and published by...
2019-09-02 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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In a recent post I wrote about collecting server performance metrics using Performance Monitor, a free utility built into Windows. With a little work up front, we are able...
2019-08-13 (first published: 2019-07-30)
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Whether you’re a DBA/administrator looking to tune a server, planning for hardware updates, or looking to make a move to the cloud there are a few key performance metrics...
2019-07-23
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In a recent post about creating Azure VMs using PowerShell, I noted a common issue that I run into where the name of the OS disk does not conform...
2019-08-08 (first published: 2019-07-16)
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By HamishWatson
This blog post relates to where you might be doing scale operations of your...
By HamishWatson
This blog post is about a situation where writing an IF THEN ELSE statement...
By Steve Jones
Data Saturday #2 – Guatemala is tomorrow. This is the first event on the...
I have a powershell script in remote server. When I go to remote server...
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