Updating a Cryptographic Provider for EKM with Azure Key Vault - Level 5 of the Stairway to TDE
This next level of the Stairway to TDE shows how to upgrade your EKM cryptographic provider.
2026-04-15 (first published: 2024-07-17)
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Stairway Series
Level 1 of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics - Create a Synapse Workspace
In this first level of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics, we learn how to set up a new workspace and add data files.
2025-06-06 (first published: 2024-07-03)
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Level 27: Time Intelligence – Dates Functions: The DAX “Parallel Period” and “Same Period Last Year” Functions
Business Intelligence Architect, “Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson introduces two somewhat similar DAX Time Intelligence functions related to “parallel” Date periods: PARALLELPERIOD() and SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR(). He discusses the syntax, uses and operation of each function, and then provides hands-on exposure to it in Power BI.
2026-04-15 (first published: 2024-01-24)
1,867 reads
Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO) Level 5: Moving to the SQLServer Module
In this level you will learn about the SQLServer PowerShell module that ships with modern versions of SSMS.
2024-01-20 (first published: 2024-01-17)
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Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO) Level 4: Scripting and Copying Small Databases
In the fourth level of this series, we will examine how you can use the scripting classes to create the code to manage your SQL Server instances and databases.
2024-01-20 (first published: 2023-12-13)
1,929 reads
Stairway to Database DevOps Level 4: Creating a new Azure Pipeline (with Azure SQL DB Deployment)
The first three levels of this series have been the lead-up to this level, automating the database deployment with Azure Pipelines. First, we started with an introduction to Azure DevOps and the Git client. Next, SQL Source Control was introduced to manage a database’s schema and manually deploy changes from the database to source control […]
2023-12-06
2,439 reads
Stairway to Database DevOps Level 3: Managing Code as a Team in Git
In this level of the Stairway to Database DevOps, you'll get an introduction to branching and merging. Learn how to create a branch for making your changes to the codebase, submitting these in a code review, and then merging the changes into those made by other developers.
2023-12-01
1,944 reads
Stairway to Database DevOps Level 2: Manage Code with Red Gate SQL Source Control
In this second level of the Stairway to Database DevOps, we learn to use Redgate's SQL Source Control to save and updates changes to objects, as well as tracking data in certain tables.
2023-10-18
1,411 reads
Stairway to DAX and Power BI Level 26: Time Intelligence – Dates Functions: The DAX “Total to Date” Functions
Business Intelligence Architect, Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson introduces three similar DAX Time Intelligence functions related to Date: TOTALMTD(), TOTALQTD(), and TOTALMYD(). He discusses the syntax, uses and operation of each function, and then provides hands-on exposure to it in Power BI.
2026-04-15 (first published: 2023-09-27)
960 reads
Stairway to Database DevOps Level 1: Setup a Local Git Repo with Azure DevOps
In this first level of the Stairway to DevOps, you will learn how to get version control set up on your local machine and connect to an Azure DevOps repository.
2023-10-16 (first published: 2023-09-13)
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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