State v Migrations
Steve Jones talks a bit about the difference between state based and migrations based approaches for deployment.
Hyper-V and PowerShell: Shielded Virtual Machines
In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft have implemented a strong security concept called Shielded Virtual Machines. Shielded VMs have been improved in the Windows Server 2019 release. In the second part of this series, Nicolas describes what Shielded Virtual Machines are and how to configure them using PowerShell.
Idle Connection Resiliency
Describes the idle connection resiliency feature, which allows ODBC and SqlClient data access applications to maintain their connections to SQL Server 2014 or an Azure SQL Database.
More Query Tuning?
What types of sessions are important in a conference schedule? Steve Jones talks a bit about the lack of tuning sessions.
Splitting Strings in SQL Server 2016
Comparison of the new methods of splitting strings in SQL Server 2016 to the tried and true methods
How to Tell If Your SQL Server Has Too Much Memory
Brent shows what Perfmon counter to watch after your SQL Server restarts.
Building Test Data
Steve talks about the importance of test data and how to get it in development environments.
SQL Server From .Net: Reading SQL Server Metadata in ADO.Net
A basic introduction for developers (or anyone) about reading the metadata of a SQL Server database from a .Net application.
Using Regular Expressions With T-SQL: From Beginner To Advanced
Its possible to use some comparable expressions to a full regular expression library for matching certain patterns with T-SQL using the like operator. This tutorial uses these expressions for filtering price phrases involving alphabetic, numeric, and special characters
Getting Started with Level 1 of the Stairway to Azure SQL Database
In this first level, learn how to get started with Azure and Azure SQL Database.
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Backup to Immutable Storage
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Backup to Immutable Storage
In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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