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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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JSON documents in Azure and IF/THEN blocks
If you do any work in Azure you’ve probably done deployments using JSON scripts. Originally JSON in Azure didn’t support much, you could create objects, but if you put it in the JSON script, it would...
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Exchanging SQL Certificates with different service accounts can be tricky
Setting up Transparent Data Encryption, or Backup Encryption, or basically anything else where you need to restore a certificate to another SQL Server instance can get tricky as soon as you run the...
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General availability: SQL Database auto-failover groups – and it looks awesome
A really great feature in Azure SQL DB went GA today. That feature gives you and SQL DB the ability to automatically fail databases over to a Secondary replia, without having to configure your...
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