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Nov 78 min read

Azure Database Watcher - Every Breath you take, every move you make...

Monitoring can be expensive...really expensive. And while there are open source options available (shameless self promotion here for a...

Oct 74 min read

Constrained Delegation and Power BI Gateway SSO or SSRS - Delegation... oooo..ooo delegation, it's what we need...

Ah, the elderly parent, the old warhorse SQL Server Reporting Services, and the young(ish) upstart Power BI and its On Premises Data...

Sep 164 min read

SSIS with SQL Always Encrypted Data. It's Integrated Jim, but not as we know it.

This is part 3 in the SQL Always Encrypted mini series... Unfortunately, the gotchas continue, as it isn't straight forward when using...

Sep 46 min read

Power BI with SQL Always Encrypted Data. Database Connectivity...Open you say?

In this episode, we're going to look into how we can read that Always Encrypted data (On Prem, with the Key secured by Azure Key Vault),...

Aug 197 min read

SQL Always Encrypted with Azure Key Vault - Lock up your data!

Those DBAs eh? You just can't trust 'em.... Well, we know that statement is ridiculous, but there are so many cases where data in a SQL...

Aug 55 min read

SQL Server Avengers: CPU Affinity War

Maybe not the best entry in the franchise, but this is another one of those configuration options that has been around forever, but very...

Jul 156 min read

Statistics IO. IO... IO... it's off to parse we go.

Again, this is another one of those little bits of functionality that has been present since year dot. Unfortunately, it seems to be...

Jun 124 min read

SQL Auditing. Guilty as charged! Or not, as the case may be.

This is a finger pointing situation that i've witnessed in the past regarding native SQL Auditing, and the potential for edge case false...

May 303 min read

Reasons to Match Datatypes #39 - Table Partitioning

Ok, so I may have exaggerated and jumped a few just slightly with the numbering there for effect, but they all matter. Assume a heavily...

May 284 min read

Azure Managed Instance SQL 2022 Update Policy. Well that potentially sucks.

Ah, SQL 2022, the release that finally brought box SQL and Azure managed instance closer together. We have wonderful toys such as...

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