(Pinal Dave) Here are my previous blogs about Backup to URL, I have share scripts to take backup using Access Keys and SAS Token. One of my blog readers wanted to take stripped backup to Azure Blob. In this blog, I am sharing the script to perform a stripped backup using shared access signature (SAS

(blobeater) The truncate option is fast and efficient but did you know that it takes a certain lock where you could actually be blocked? What am I talking about?

(gdavi) I want to have something that subscribes to the Event Grid Topic, and when a new event is published takes action depending on the details of the event. In my scenario, I want to pay attention to and take action on alarm events with a status of red.

(Koen Verbeeck) The DAX query language – used in Analysis Services Tabular, Power Pivot and Power BI – contains some powerful functions. One of these functions is the relatively new TREATAS. In this tip, we’ll introduce you to the syntax and concepts of the function and show some uses cases where th

(Manoj) With SQL Server 2016 Microsoft added Machine Learning support with R Language in SQL engine itself and called it SQL Server R Services.

(Michael Otey) Deploying SQL Server in Docker containers for production applications typically requires custom containers. Here are guidelines on how to attach your databases to them.

(Marcin Policht) In one of our earlier articles published on this forum, we have presented a range of capabilities that enhance business continuity of Azure SQL Database deployments. That article is, at this point, over a year old, which constitutes a rather long time when you consider the rapid rat

(Pinal Dave) As I mentioned in my earlier blog, backup to URL is one of the common methods used in SQL Server performs a backup to Azure Blob Storage.

(Pinal Dave) In my recent project with a customer, they wanted to configure SQL backups to Azure Blob Storage. When we were trying to take a backup, we were facing error.

(blobeater) PsPing tool is part of the sysinternals PsTools download found – ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psping) This is the tool of choice when wanting to find out latency to your Azure SQL Server.