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I will be the first to admit that I am what one might call a “SQL Head”. In other words, I’m a nerd that likes to dig into the internal workings of SQL Server, sometimes down to the bits and bytes. The tools to facilitate this archaeology have slowly been […]
One of the new phrases coming out of Microsoft is that “SQL is just SQL” regardless of what operating system it resides on. This was echoed during the keynote at SQL Bits 2019 by the Microsoft team, which you can watch here. Later that weekend, I gave a session about […]
Let’s be honest here, data security is really important to me. Some people probably think that I go to extremes to ensure that my data as well as my customers data is secured. With that, sometime ago, I wrote a blog post on utilizing a VPN server that I built […]
Traveling in today’s age of technology is a lot easier than in the past. You can start your journey in the morning of one country and be half way across the world by nights end. When traveling, data security is usually always at the forefront of my mind. I recently […]
In a previous post, I described how you can use Azure storage to store SQL Server database backup files. This flexible option offers the ability to get your critical backups off site and in certain regions, they could be configured to be automatically redundant to a secondary region. Having backups […]
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about boot diagnostics and how they can help you troubleshoot issues when virtual machines won’t start. But what if you selected to disabled boot diagnostics when the virtual machine was created? Can you go back and retro-actively add them back? Yes, Virginia, yes […]
Several weeks ago, while on a flight traveling home from San Francisco, I received an exciting email. I had submitted to speak at SQL Bits and during my flight I was notified that one of my submitted sessions had been selected. This means that I’ll be traveling to Manchester, England […]
If you have ever rebooted a virtual machine and feel like you are in the dark to it’s current state, you aren’t alone. Thankfully, Azure provides a number of tools to aid in your experience in the cloud when it comes to “reboot darkness”. Boot diagnostics allows you to see […]