Microsoft Defender for open-source relational DB
If you navigate to the overview section of your MySQL server you will see a notification area, here you will find security section. It’s basically an area to provide...
2022-03-08
25 reads
Data Thoughts – T-SQL Tuesday #148 – Advice on running a user group
G’day, This months T-SQL Tuesday (March 2022) invite is brought to you by Rie Merrit – @IrishSQL Rie has asked us to write about “Advice on running a user...
2022-03-08
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Extracting Data from the AFAS REST API with Azure Data Factory
AFAS is a Dutch business software company, proving companies with ERP and HR software-as-a-service. You can extract data from the service using a REST API (there are also SOAP...
2022-03-07
41 reads
Query Plans in Azure Data Studio
I have long been a fan of Azure Data Studio, but one shortcoming has kept me from truly adopting it: Query Plans in Azure Data Studio. Sure, there was...
2022-03-21 (first published: 2022-03-07)
374 reads
Reading more efficiently
In IT, we have to read a lot. For instance, understanding how to set something in Azure or Okta or vSphere may mean we are consuming 5 or more...
2022-03-18 (first published: 2022-03-07)
323 reads
Daily Coping 7 Mar 2022
I 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...
2022-03-07
23 reads
KQL and ADX – Is this really like SQL?
Hopefully, you’re aware that Azure Data Explorer can be accessed by anybody with a valid Microsoft Account Identity or MSA for short. If you need a one, then hop...
2022-03-23 (first published: 2022-03-07)
451 reads
ADX and KQL – Free Cluster for learning purposes
G’day, I’ve been looking around a bit lately at Azure Data Explorer (ADX) Clusters and the Kusto Query Language (KQL). I recently learned that Microsoft is letting people experience...
2022-03-07 (first published: 2022-03-06)
131 reads
Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory | Part 1
(2022-Mar-04) Looking in the Oxford dictionary, Metadata can be described as "information that describes other information in order to help you understand or use it", as well as Pipeline is "a series...
2022-03-23 (first published: 2022-03-04)
1,336 reads
Secure Travel
Last Updated on March 4, 2022 by John Morehouse Update: This post was originally published on March 8th, 2019 and a lot of things have changed over the last...
2022-03-04
81 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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