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Day 1 at the PASS Summit, Welcomes John Morehouse to DCAC
Today is Day 1 at the PASS Summit, and there’s going to be all sorts of blog posts all about what’s being announced during the keynote today (I assume). I’ll leave those announcements for others to...
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Taking Shortcuts Isn’t Worth It
Everyone takes shortcuts. It’s normal. But we shouldn’t be doing it. It comes with some disadvantages. Sometimes it doesn’t look pretty, sometimes the shortcuts cause performance problems, sometimes...
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8TB SSD in Azure vs. 8 1TB SSD in Azure
With the 8TB SSD drives that Azure has, which makes the most sense to use multiple 1TB SSDs or the 8TB SSD drives? Well that depends. The 8TB SSDs give you 7500 IOPs and 250 MB/sec, but if I take 8...
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Being critical without being a crank
Tweets, facebook posts and blog posts can be powerfull things. The have the ability to sway peoples opinions of others, to drive people to buy software, to sell stock, and to make bad...
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Should I be blocking outbound ports in Azure by default?
The short answer is that yes there are ports that you’ll want to block outbound by default. There’s a variety of amplification attacks that you have the possibility of being a member of. These attacks...
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Be sure to thank the sponsors
Conferences, no matter the size all have one thing in common, they all require the same thing to run from Breakfast until Dinner for the day (or multiple days) that the event runs. That thing they need...
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What does SQL encrypt by default?
For the purposes of this, we’re ignoring SQL Server 7.0 and below.Out of the box, SQL Server will encrypt some things by default to protect you and your data. Out of the box, SQL Server will encrypt...
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When does it make sense to upgrade?
There’s a lot of versions of SQL Server available today. I’ve seen clients deploying new services on SQL Server 2015, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017 (yes we have a client on SQL Server 2017 already)...
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Happy New Year, Welcome to 2018
It’s 2018 and welcome to it. Here’s hoping that 2018 is a easier year than 2017 was.For me, that means no brain tumor this year. Hopefully that’s a easy bar to hit.DennyThe post Happy New Year,...
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Where Denny went during PASS and Live360 Events
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128733321@N05/17222900949/inIf you were at the PASS Summit, Live360 in November, or SQL Saturday in Slovenia in December, you may have noticed that I couldn’t make it to...
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When Using Availability Group Listeners, Why Can I See Non-AG Databases?
Yep. This is actually by design; and is because listeners can be tricky little fellas. When using a SQL Server Availability Group Listener, you can see any databases on the server that is hosting the...
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VMs in Azure region can’t talk to MySQL database service in same region
I ran into an interesting issue last week. I had VMs in the US West region of Azure which was unable to talk to the MySQL database service (PaaS) also in US West. The problem is turned out was due to a...
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Can I Use Azure Threat Detection On-Premesis?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123327536@N08/23891946434The short answer here is no. The threat detection features that you see in Azure are not available in the on-premises product. This includes VMs...
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Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting has two VMware vExperts
VMware recently announced they’re vExpert list for 2018 and I’m proud to say that both Joey and myself were on the VMware list for 2018. The VMware vExpert program is designed to reconize those in the...
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Azure precon at SQL Grillen in June
I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll be hosting a pre-con at SQL Grillen this June in Lingen, Germany titled “Designing Azure Infrastructure for Data Platform Projects” which you can see on the events...
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Why Don’t Universal Groups Work in SQL Server?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123327536@N08/23891946434If you’ve tried using Universal Groups in Active Directory to access your SQL Servers, you may notice that the users who are members of these...
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Denny’s first public speaking event post surgery is…
In case you didn’t catch it, I’ve been out for a while, with good reason. Apparently, emergency brain surgery takes a while to recover from. I’m not back to 100% yet, but I’ll be speaking at my first...
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But why won’t you sponsor at my event?
Being a vendor/exhibitor at a few conferences has been an eye-opening experience for sure. Sadly exhibitors can’t sponsor at all the events that are available. It used to be the case that vendors could...
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PASS Summit 2018 Here I Come
I’m thrilled to be able to say that I’ll be presenting a precon at the PASS Summit 2018. This year I’ll be giving a precon on database security. In this session we’ll be going over the various...
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TEMP is A Four Letter Word
It’s not uncommon to observe rampant over reliance of database application code on TEMP tables, most often as a SQL language programming crutch. I have a theory as to why. Programmers are chiefly...
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