Titles Matter – Part 2
In a followup to his previous piece, Andy Warren looks at job titles again and they can affect the people he works with.
The Community Cloud
The 'Community Cloud' sounds, on first impression, like marketing-speak for some untried novelty, but in fact it is already around, and working well for governments and healthcare in particular. Bob Sheldon investigates, and is encouraged to find groups of organisations who have cooperated to create secure and resilient cloud-based services.
Pairing Data Vault and Biml for DW Agility
Agile data warehousing can be challenging. Pairing the right methodologies and tools can help. Here is how my team met the challenge by using Data Vault methodology and BIML scripting.
Why Can't We Go Backwards?
How many times have you wanted to restore a database to an earlier version? Today Steve Jones asks why can't we do this and includes a way for you to vote on this.
Introduction to Azure PowerShell Modules for the SQL Server DBA Part 1
Our organization is starting to deploy more virtual machines on Azure for both testing and DR environments. I would like to create and administer Azure virtual machines using Windows PowerShell. How do I get started?
A few reflections on security by a weary application developer
Data security? No worries! Tell me how much you are willing to pay.
Not unit testing your databases? You should be
Releasing a product without testing it is generally accepted as an unforgivable sin in the software development world. And frankly, there really isn’t an excuse not to test when we have whole suites of testing tools available to us
Clustered Columnstore Index Gives "Unable to find index entry" Error
The Clustered columnstore index generates "unable to find index entry" error and a memory dump after few DMLs on the table
Implementing Azure Blob Storage (ABS) With SQL Server 2014
With any application organizations face consistent key challenges such as high efficiency and business value, complex configuration, and low total cost of ownership. Extending applications to the cloud in hybrid scenarios addresses many of these challenges, whether distributing SharePoint content across on-premises and Office 365 while leveraging search as a service (hybrid search) or externalizing data, extending it to the cloud with Remote Blob Storage or related technologies.
Blogs
VPN + SQL Server Connections: Why Long-Working Setups Suddenly Fail with Msg 10054 and “Connection Broken”
By Tim Radney
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been contacted by multiple customers experiencing the same...
Future IT Roles – Agentic Architect and AI Boom!!
By Vinay Thakur
These days everything is changing to AI World, IT roles are getting changed and...
Free Webinar about Columnstore Indexes
I’m doing a small series on indexing basics for SQL Server, and on May...
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SSoL Support on the OS
On which Linux versions is SQL Server 2025 on Linux supported?
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