Checking for Membership of a Specific Active Directory Group
As part of my job I manage a bunch of SQL instances for Development and Test.
Access is managed though Active...
2018-10-15 (first published: 2018-10-02)
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Go Green with Blue Using Azure
Is your company working on ways to become more environmentally friendly? Taking care of the environment is an important topic,...
2018-10-02
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Starting SSMS with a specific connection and script file
Have you ever wanted SSMS to start and automatically and establish a connection to your DBA \ hub server and have...
2018-10-15 (first published: 2018-10-02)
7,837 reads
Power BI Dashboards, Reports, and Datasets with the SQL Chefs
This week I had the opportunity to learn about dashboards, reports, and datasets in Power BI using the best kind...
2018-10-11 (first published: 2018-10-02)
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Power BI Dashboards, Reports, and Datasets with the SQL Chefs
Watch this week's video on YouTube
This week I had the opportunity to learn about dashboards, reports, and datasets in Power BI using the best kind of teaching tool: fresh,...
2018-10-02
16 reads
Power BI Dashboards, Reports, and Datasets with the SQL Chefs
Watch this week's video on YouTube
This week I had the opportunity to learn about dashboards, reports, and datasets in Power BI using the best kind of teaching tool: fresh,...
2018-10-02
8 reads
The SQL Agents’ view of SQL Server
I recently came across a really odd issue with the SQL Agent, there were two agent jobs attached to one...
2018-10-11 (first published: 2018-10-02)
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Testing Failover for Azure SQL Database
It is always a good idea to test your failover processes when you have setup failover groups in Azure. I...
2018-10-02
361 reads
Azure Cosmos DB Free Trial – walk through of Gremlin API for Graph
After the 2018 Microsoft Ignite event, Microsoft announced a free trial of Azure Cosmos DB. For those who are eager to check out Cosmos DB, this is a great...
2018-10-01
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Azure Cosmos DB Free Trial – walk through of Gremlin API for Graph
After the 2018 Microsoft Ignite event, Microsoft announced a free trial of Azure Cosmos DB. For those who are eager...
2018-10-12 (first published: 2018-10-01)
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Blogs
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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