2023-01-30
365 reads
Cloud Computing
Translate Text Data using Azure Cognitive Services
Learn the basics of the Text Translation services in Azure Cognitive Services.
2023-01-11
3,030 reads
Basic Checks on a New AWS RDS SQL Server
When you first become responsible for a new RDS instance, what do you do? Kenneth Igiri gives you a few queries to get you started.
2022-12-14 (first published: 2022-11-30)
884 reads
Basic Checks on a New AWS RDS SQL Server
When you first become responsible for a new RDS instance, what do you do? Kenneth Igiri gives you a few queries to get you started.
2022-11-30
3,188 reads
Cloud First Software
Many software packages are moving to the cloud, but Steve doesn't like to see this without some ability to extract data.
2022-12-23 (first published: 2022-11-30)
128 reads
Amazon RDS - Configuring a Connection to a SQL Server Instance
In this article, you will learn how to configure an RDS database for connections from client tools.
2022-11-23 (first published: 2022-11-21)
429 reads
Amazon RDS - Configuring a Connection to a SQL Server Instance
In this article, you will learn how to configure an RDS database for connections from client tools.
2022-11-21
3,082 reads
2022-10-28
352 reads
Things I've Learned About the Cloud
Steve shares a few things he's learned from customers trying to migrate their systems to cloud computing platforms.
2022-10-10
235 reads
Cloud Databases
There are advantages of cloud databases when your workload requirements grow. Steve thinks it's useful to learn a bit about the options out there.
2022-09-30
544 reads
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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