Daily Coping 28 Sep 2020
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...
2020-09-28
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Azure SQL Database Compatibility with SQL Server
A long time ago, in early days of the Azure SQL Database in 2015, I wrote this article in which I tried to compare the SQL Server and Azure...
2020-10-02 (first published: 2020-09-27)
2,148 reads
Custom deployment parameters in Azure Data Factory - Forget Me Not
(2020-Sep-26) Last week one of my Azure Data Factory (ADF) deployment pipelines failed with an error that it couldn’t find some of the deployment parameters that I try to override,...
2020-10-05 (first published: 2020-09-26)
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VMworld 2020 – Top 10 Database Sessions (Part 2)
Whether you are a SQL Server Database Administrator, Infrastructure Architect, or any other member of IT managing SQL Servers in a virtualized environment, you should already be registered for...
2020-10-02 (first published: 2020-09-25)
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Daily Coping 25 Sep 2020
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...
2020-09-25
44 reads
VMworld 2020 – Top 10 Database Sessions (Part 1)
Whether you are a SQL Server Database Administrator, Infrastructure Architect, or any other member of IT managing SQL Servers in a virtualized environment, you should already be registered for...
2020-10-01 (first published: 2020-09-24)
258 reads
Daily Coping 24 Sep 2020
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...
2020-09-24
13 reads
Confounding Variables from Historical Bias
Note: co-authored with Christine Assaf, originally published in the now-defunct PASS Blog.
Historical data analysis that is naïve to past discrimination is doomed to parrot bias. How do we combat bias in our...
2020-09-23
26 reads
VMworld 2020 SQL Server session preview
Join me, David Klee, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and VMware vExpert, for a preview of my session at VMworld 2020 called Hybrid Cloud Architecture for SQL Server Workloads: Deep...
2020-09-23
88 reads
A new malware attack on SQL Server
Tencent Security has released a report (written in Chinese) describing a new malware attack by the name of “MrbMiner” on SQL Server instances exposed to the Internet with passwords that can...
2020-09-23
388 reads
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