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SQL Server itself is a very stable and secure product. Unfortunately, it sits on top of Windows. When operations has WSUS auto scheduling Windows updates on a database server, I've...
July 10, 2019 at 6:34 pm
Fortunately, most of the major 3rd party applications in use today are hosted in the cloud by the vendor themselves, rather than the IT organization hosting them on-premises. Huge monolithic...
July 10, 2019 at 3:38 pm
The problem is that many organizations simply deploy a VCS solution and then put out the word that everybody should start using it. But it's not just another developer tool,...
July 8, 2019 at 1:35 pm
It wouldn't surprise me if the department staff improperly accessing DMV records were also selling the data to third parties like private investigators, skip tracers, and law firms. Cell phone...
July 3, 2019 at 5:02 pm
I doubt that this one specific female employee was an isolated target. The people doing this have probably been routinely accessing DMV records for hundreds or thousands of women over...
July 3, 2019 at 4:53 pm
If you have an IT organization where departments (ie: developers and DBAs) are physically or culturally isolated, then conflict is only temporary. What it becomes over time is a cold...
June 28, 2019 at 2:49 pm
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If you need search, just use something built off of Lucene, it's clearly the best of breed. Is Azure Search Lucene based? ...
Azure Search supports Lucene compatible...
June 26, 2019 at 5:27 pm
It would also be nice if they could tell me when I create an account how long it will remain active. Should I be able to force a renewal...
June 25, 2019 at 5:43 pm
It's probably not a good idea to post a list of all the websites where you have a login.
June 25, 2019 at 5:40 pm
For Azure SQL databases, there is Azure Search. There is also a pattern for integrating on-premises SQL Server with Azure Search using Azure Data Factory.
June 24, 2019 at 3:07 pm
I'm not sure if a current or near future SQL edition will do this, but in Cosmos DB, throughput is provisioned using request units per second (RU/s), so the number...
June 20, 2019 at 5:32 pm
In most places where I've worked, to access some of the more important production database servers, even as a sysadmin, it is required to login to a MFA protected VPN...
June 18, 2019 at 3:26 pm
If your organization uses Azure Active Directory, then maybe it's visible to you somewhere in the portal. For personal Microsoft Live accounts, there is a Recent Activity feature where you...
June 18, 2019 at 1:39 pm
I use Visual Studio or SSDT for SSIS package development and schema / data comparison. However, I find the UI too cluttered and AppDev centric for it to replace SSMS...
June 17, 2019 at 12:51 pm
This is why so many folks are moving their databases to Azure. Instead of debating about VMs, Cores, and storage controllers, it's simply setting the right DTUs (database transfer units)...
June 14, 2019 at 5:57 pm
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