Daily Coping 21 May 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...
2020-05-21
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Step-by-Step: iSCSI Target Server Cluster in Azure
I recently helped someone build an iSCSI target server cluster in Azure and realized that I never wrote a step-by-step guide for that particular configuration. So to remedy that,...
2020-06-03 (first published: 2020-05-20)
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Power BI Incremental Refresh with Web API Data Source
It’s been a while since I typed up a blog post but life, even in the midst of a pandemic, has been busy and crazy. As you can imagine,...
2020-06-02 (first published: 2020-05-20)
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Build announcements: Azure Synapse Analytics in public preview and more
A few data platform announcements yesterday at Microsoft Build that I wanted to blog about. The biggest one is Azure Synapse Analytics is now available in public preview! You...
2020-05-20
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Connecting to SSAS–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. In a previous post, I installed SSAS on...
2020-05-20
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An insidious form of SQL injection
As longtime readers know, I am also a software developer (we can’t call them engineers in Canada for legal reasons). I took over a complex codebase last year in...
2020-05-20
281 reads
Daily Coping 20 May 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...
2020-05-20
24 reads
Connecting to Azure SQL Database: Requested tenant identifier ‘00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000’ is not valid.
The other day I got this rather interesting error while connecting to an Azure SQL DB. I was connecting using ... Continue reading
2020-05-20
110 reads
JSON, SQL Server and Esacpe Characters of the non-printable kind
G’day, We observed in a previous installment that JSON uses the backslash character “” as the escape character. However, what happens if we actually want a backslash in our...
2020-05-20
159 reads
Refresh databases that belongs to Availability Group using dbatools
Few days ago I was surfing on Twitter when dbatools asked about how it’s PowerShell module changed the way people work. We're looking to highlight how dbatools has changed...
2020-06-03 (first published: 2020-05-20)
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SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident
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