Closing all of the connections to a database
Doing a database restore may not be the most common task a database professional will ever do, but it’s a...
2017-12-07 (first published: 2017-11-27)
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Back To (Security) Basics
Security is very much on our minds these days. Scarcely a day goes by without hearing of a yet another...
2017-12-06 (first published: 2017-11-27)
1,591 reads
Vigilant SQL DBA Vulnerability Management & 1st Look at Azure Vulnerability Assessments (Baltimore SSUG Session last week)
Just a quick note to share last Wednesday night's presentation on how to manage SQL Server vulnerabilities, plus a first...
2017-11-27
563 reads
Design Concepts To Help You Create Better Power BI Reports
I have decided to write a series of blog posts about visual design concepts that can have a big impact...
2017-12-08 (first published: 2017-11-27)
2,425 reads
Create users in Azure AD
In this post I'll show you how to create new users in your Azure Active Directory so you can use...
2017-11-27
153 reads
PASS Linux for the SQL Server DBA Webinar – Dec 13
Join me for a session on Linux administration for the SQL Server DBA as part of the PASS SQL Server...
2017-12-04 (first published: 2017-11-26)
1,134 reads
Flexible connections and an old friend
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Just lately I’ve found myself involved with an app that needed to run on a server and nearly always (although...
2017-11-26
449 reads
Tricks - Copy T SQL Result to Excel
Sometimes, some of the silliest of tricks save so much of time and effort. Very common scenario is to copy a query result to excel. Most take either of...
2017-11-25
11 reads
Tricks - Copy T SQL Result to Excel
Sometimes, some of the silliest of tricks save so much of time and effort. Very common scenario is to copy a query result to excel. Most take either of...
2017-11-25
185 reads
Tricks - Copy T SQL Result to Excel
Sometimes, some of the silliest of tricks save so much of time and effort. Very common scenario is to copy...
2017-11-25
683 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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