Congratulations to Pragmatic Works – Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalists, Again

Pragmatic Works has done it again. Microsoft has recognized us for our work this year with two finalist awards — Power BI and PowerApps and Power Automate. This recognizes...

Recovery Unit InitPersistentVersionStore Failed

As usual, I was working on my weekend on-call and I have had an alert. Our monitoring system has reported a message printed from the error log. I was...

Laptop to Build Hyper-V Test Lab - Part 1

Laptop to Build Hyper-V Test Lab - Part 1

Laptop to Build Hyper-V Test Lab - Part 1

This is the first Video of the series, will show you how to configure Hyper-V and then create several VM’s to configure AlwaysOn

On Dynamic Ports, Named Instances, and Firewalls

Recently I had a client and their vendor trying to configure a firewall for a new installation of SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019.Connections to the SQL Server...

Daily Coping 13 Jul 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...

The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure

I’m happy to announce the publication of my latest book. The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure is now available on Amazon in both...

Big Data Storage in Microsoft Azure

Azure storage is a Microsoft solution designed to store your data on it with different models (Blobs, Tables, Queue, File Shares, and Disks) to know the differences, usage, High...

Last Week Reading (2020-07-12)

Press Azure resource providers operations List of all of the available ADF-specific RBAC permissions. Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure The power of What-If within ARM Template deployments. Collecting custom...