Some time ago, I wrote a number of blogposts comparing the different Azure SQL options to give you some idea about performance, differences between tiers and differences between the Stock Keeping Units (SKU's). This was done by creating data in the database itself and review the metrics. This works fine and gave a good overview … Continue reading Loadtesting SQL, the sequel
It's been a long time coming, but all of a sudden there were a number of posts from Microsoft announcing the first preview of SQL Server Management Studio 21. This is big as it's quite the overhaul from the SQL Server Management Studio we're used to. To give you some idea, here are my first … Continue reading SQL Server Management Studio 21: First Impressions & Features
Blog alert! My colleague recently came to me with a fun challenge: why is their SQL Server Hashbytes conversion not working as expected? After some digging, I discovered significant differences between text data types when converting them. Check out my latest blog post to learn more about this interesting topic. #SQL #datahashing #techtalk #SqlServer #Microsoft
When Fabric released, there was a lot of noise around it. Many people have written blogs, created YouTube video's and all kinds of other interesting things to share the love of this new tooling. Well, new? Especially when you look at Fabric data warehouse, it's more of an iteration over Synapse Analytics Serverless Pools. As … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, Data Warehouse first impressions
Now that's a title! Here's the problem I've ran into. Setup Customer has an Azure environment with an Azure SQL Server database that can be reached through a private endpoint. There's a VPN in place to connect on-premises networks with the Azure VNet and the private endpoint is in one of the subnets, the VPN … Continue reading Connect your on-premises SSMS to Azure SQL DB over a VPN
A short blog on how to get Always Encrypted to work in your app and in the ODBC connection.
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How using the DAC saved our day!
How to find your lost query files from SSMS.
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