Can Azure Stack Reduce Software Development Costs?
Azure Stack provides a hybrid cloud infrastructure platform. Steve wonders if this really helps reduce software development costs.
2019-04-24
214 reads
Azure
Introduction to Azure Database Migration Service – SQL On The Edge Episode 19
Azure has a rich set of offerings in terms of database platform services. We have the full family of SQL Server-based databases (single, pool, managed instance, data warehouse), open...
2019-04-11
What is Azure Cost Management?
If you’re using Azure, one key piece is effectively planning and controlling the costs involved in running your business. In this post, I’ll discuss what I believe to be one of the most critical functions in Azure that will help you properly deploy and manage your environment.
2019-04-05
Create Azure Data Lake Linked Service Using Azure Data Factory
In this article we walk through a step-by-step example on how to create an Azure Data Lake Linked Service in Azure Data Factory v2.
2019-03-27
Uploading On-Premises Data as JSON to Azure Blob Storage using SSIS
Using Azure Feature Pack for Integration Services to access Blob storage from Azure into SSIS packages
2019-04-23 (first published: 2019-03-26)
2,506 reads
Using Azure Resource Manager Templates To Provision Azure SQL Databases
Azure provides a number of different methods that can be used in order to implement and configure its resources. Each of the methods differs to some extent in regard to functionality and intended use cases.
2019-03-12
1,943 reads
What does Azure SQL DB Automatic Index Tuning actually do, and when?
Azure SQL DB’s Automatic Tuning will create and drop indexes based on your workloads. Brent's latest blog post shows how to enable it and explains what it actually does.
2019-03-08
2,545 reads
Improve the Performance of Your Azure SQL Database (and Save Money!) with Automatic Tuning
Organizations may have many concerns about performance when migrating databases to Azure. Fortunately, Microsoft provides some great tools to help improve performance and save money. In this article, Monica Rathbun explains how to take advantage of these features.
2019-02-28
2,433 reads
Monitoring Azure Health Status Using Azure Portal - Part 1
In this tip we look at how you can monitor Azure health to know if there are any issues that may interupt your services running on Azure.
2018-11-26
1,932 reads
Azure EA Financial Reporting and Granular Access to Data Through the Enterprise
With the billing data from your Azure Enterprise Agreement collected into one database, it is still necessary to break down the costs and provide access to the correct departments and individuals. This is important for chargeback and further analysis. In this article, Feodor Georgiev demonstrates how to provide granular access to the billing data.
2018-11-08
2,241 reads
Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
Forums
jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
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Searching for my own posts
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How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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