(blobeater) This is by no means a complete list but more of a personal list of features I have seen not setup or just missed out when looking at Azure SQL DB.

(Fikrat Azizov) In a previous post (Lookup activity), we discussed Lookup activity to read the content of the database tables or files. ADF also has another type of activity: Get Metadata activity, which allows reading metadata of its sources. We are going to explore the capabilities of this activit

(Rajendra Gupta) This article explores the Python scripts for encrypting and decrypting passwords in SQL Server using Azure Data Studio SQL Notebooks.

(Pinal Dave) Based on the current trend of moving to the cloud platform, there have been many new learnings for me. One of my clients migrated to SQL Azure Managed Instance and contacted me for an interesting situation.

(Kenneth Fisher) I’ve been thinking about writing this for a bit and then a co-worker actually had this problem recently, so, well, it seemed like a good idea.

(Jason Brimhall) Have you ever been zipping right along working on tuning a query or maybe a handful of queries. Then BAM! All of a sudden you lose the script you were working on. The script just so happened to have a few indexes that you were getting ready to create and you would like to not have t

(Joydip Kanjilal) Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is an open source, lightweight, cross-platform and extensible version of Microsoft’s popular ORM called Entity Framework. EF Core runs on top of the .NET Core runtime and can be used to model your entities much the same way you do with Entity Framewo

(Michael J. Swart) Taking a small break from my blogging sabbatical to post one script that I’ve found myself writing from scratch too often.

(James Serra) DevOps, a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and information-technology operations (Ops), has become a very popular way to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of applications (“software”).