Running software teams isn't as easy as it may seem, and the way you manage a startup is different than a mature organization. Steve has a few comments on the process one angel investor implements.

Adding Reports Users to SQL Monitor

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SQL Monitor 10.0.5 now supports a user role called "Reports user". A user added to this role, by an administrator, will be able to 'self-serve' SQL Monitor reports but won't be able to configure any other aspect of the monitoring service. Jeremiah Peschka explains how it works.

Considerations for Deploying Azure SQL Database Managed Instances

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Database Journal

While Microsoft provides a number of different deployment options for its Azure SQL Database offerings, one in particular warrants special attention from the standpoint of its infrastructure dependencies: Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.

How to ACTUALLY save money in the cloud with SQL Server

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We have all heard migrating to the cloud can save you money and there are several ways moving your SQL Server workloads to the cloud can save your organization money. But, there are also missteps that can eat away at the savings, performance and even your availability creating instead an expensive, ineffective, difficult to manage cloud infrastructure.

1000 SQL Saturdays

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SQLServerCentral

SQL Saturday

Sometime this year we'll have SQL Saturday #1000.

Perform Data Filtering in Oracle Link to SQL Server

by Pablo Echeverria

SQLServerCentral

Learn how to perform data filtering in Oracle Linux using a database link to SQL Server

Getting Started with SQL Data Masker: I Need to Mask some Columns

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Grant Fritchey explains the core rules and features of Data Masker, and how you go about using them to mask columns, so that when the data is used outside the production system it could not identify an individual or reveal sensitive information.

Reduce CPU of Large Analytic Queries Without Changing Code

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Microsoft introduced several features called Intelligent Query Processing for SQL Server in 2017 and 2019 that can improve performance without making changes to code. In this article, Greg Larsen demonstrates the feature Batch Mode on Rowstore.