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7 Days of PASS – Day 6
It’s my 2nd and final day on the Blogger Table and also the 2nd day of the Summit proper. This time I am seated at the opposite end of the table to the day before and soon after sitting down I am...
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ScriptDom Visualizer
Writing code to generate TSql using the ScriptDom is hard. There is a seemingly bewildering array of objects you can use and where you use different types is unclear, I think this is due to the...
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Analysing Audience Reaction To The PASS Summit 2015 Keynote
If my post from a few weeks back asking for help with my session at PASS piqued your interest, I’m pleased to say that you can now watch the recording of my session “Analysing Audience Reaction To The...
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Always Encrypted a new feature on SQL Server 2016
For all DBAs working in banks or other organizations that need to comply with PCI DSS, segregation of duties is something we always get asked about. To be honest I always found it a very hard...
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Deploy SSDT INSERTS in Batches
I have added my first actual deployment contributor to my deployment contributor project:https://github.com/DacFxDeploymentContributors/ContributorsThe idea is basically for people to share ideas about...
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Questions from “SQL Server Security for Everyone”
I recently gave my SQL Server Security for Everyone session at Summit 2015. (I’m still in awe about that by the way.) First of all here are the PowerPoint...
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7 Days of PASS – Day 7
I wake at 3 a.m. to find my plan of preparing my sessions into the late evening in tatters having completely crashed and burned after the huge meal the night before. My main session is scheduled to be...
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In Azure CApS MatTers
Recently I was doing some work for a client moving some vDisks from standard storage to premium storage. Overall it was a pretty easy migration to do, just requiring a little PowerShell to make it all...
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Monday Morning SQL Break – November 2, 2015
It’s Wednesday and time to revive the Monday summary of last week’s blog activity and links shared on twitter. Hopefully I’ll be a bit more on these going forward.If you haven’t already, follow me on...
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PASS Summit 2015 Wrap-Up
I had a beyond amazing week at SQL Saturday Portland and PASS Summit, but now it’s back to reality. Time to catch up on sleep, return to the daily grind of work, and enjoy the comforts of home. Gotta...
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Redundancy Options in Azure Blob Storage
So you have data in Azure Blob Storage and are concerned about reliability. Have no fear! There are three replication options for redundancy:1. Locally Redundant Storage (LRS): All data in the...
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Don’t waste any time this maybe the best offer you ever had!
On the 20th of October Brent Ozar wrote a blogpost that I hope everyone that really need it read it the title was “Introducing Our 2016 Scholarship Program for SQL Server Training“. If you have not...
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Congrats to Our PASS Booth Prize Winner
We have done our raffle for the PASS 2015 Consultants Corner prize, which is a $1000 Amazon gift card. Our winner this year is …David Sun from MasterCard.(We actually did the drawing a few days ago,...
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Blocking SSDT Deployments When You Don't Like Something
This is probably the last contributor that I am going to add to the DacFx deployment contributors project (https://github.com/DacFxDeploymentContributors/Contributors/) for a little while, if anyone...
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How to get started with the ScriptDom
What is the ScriptDom?The ScriptDom is an api for taking t-sql scripts, converting them into an AST or taking an AST and generating t-sql.What is an AST?Read this:...
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Why Is My Relationship Inactive in Power BI Desktop?
SummaryThe Power BI Desktop tool now attempts to utilize bi-directional relationships when it can. If any ambiguity exists, some of your relationships may become inactive. If you are seeing inactive...
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Learning pathway for SQL Server 2016 and R Part 2: Divided by a Common Language
Britain has “really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.” Said Oscar Wilde, in the Centerville Ghost (1887) whilst George Bernard Shaw is quoted as saying that the...
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Avoiding Duplication Of Database Connection Information In Power BI
In a year’s time there will be a great opportunity for someone to present a session on “Power BI Development Best Practices” at the PASS Summit. Before then, we will all have to work out what those...
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Notes From the PASS Summit Keynote
Well, here we are, another PASS Summit behind us. Each Summit is special to me, in different ways. It’s like having children; you love each of them but for different reasons and in different ways. This...
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Connect to SQL Server on Azure VM via Local SSMS
After you provision a Microsoft Azure VM with SQL Server there are a few more steps that you need to take to make remote connections. The procedure below starts with a fresh Azure VM provisioned and...
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