(Dale Koetke) If you’re still using the older version of Application Insights in the Visual Studio Online portal, you’ll have to update your application to use the new version hosted in the Azure Preview portal by October 15.

(Fikrat Azizov) Collecting performance data for SQL Server is critical to ensure your systems are running properly. There are several ways and tools you can use to collect and analyze the data, but in this tip series I demonstrated a home grown approach that uses several features of SQL Server to bu

(Jason Thomas) One of the best features I like about Power BI Desktop is that the data acquisition, data modeling and data visualization functionalities are all integrated in a user friendly way. I don’t have to leave the Power BI desktop to perform any of these common operations when I am playing w

(Steve Endow) I previously wrote about a situation where the Dynamics GP GPConnNet library is unable to connect to a SQL Server instance if a port number must be specified.

(Dale Koetke) If you’re still using the older version of Application Insights in the Visual Studio Online portal, you’ll have to update your application to use the new version hosted in the Azure Preview portal by October 15.

(Fikrat Azizov) Collecting performance data for SQL Server is critical to ensure your systems are running properly. There are several ways and tools you can use to collect and analyze the data, but in this tip series I demonstrated a home grown approach that uses several features of SQL Server to bu

(Greg Low) I have a number of clients that I spend a day or two with each month. I like this style of engagement as I get to know the staff and their systems over a period of time, can see the improvements that we make over time.

(Scott Hanselman) Scott talks to Khalid Mouss about how you can monitor your Linux machines within an Azure infrastructure. Large numbers of Linux machines run on Azure with great success, so how can you best monitor the CPU and Disk access of your Linux workloads?

(Devi Prasad) Stretch DB feature in SQL Server 2016 helps to move a part of a SQL Server table to the azure for Archival.

(Pinal Dave) Errorlogs are an awesome place to learn something new every time. It springs up with some new errors which you might have not seen ever. I am a big believer of the fact that one needs to monitor and take a look at the logs from time to time.