Feb 21, 2018 | DavidP, Free Training |
In this video tutorial David talks you through the benefits of Azure SQL Elastic pools. Elastic pools allow you to share compute power between different Azure databases. This can be particularly useful if you have databases with differing or varying...
Oct 5, 2017 | DavidP, eBook, SQLSaturday |
David is delivering his Microsoft Azure for the SQL DBA talk this weekend in SQL Saturday Denmark. Go and see him if you attending the event – you can find his session in the scheduleDavid has updated his eBook Putting Your Head in the Cloud: An Introduction to...
May 9, 2017 | DavidP, Security, SQL Server 2016 |
By David PostlethwaiteIntroductionDynamic data masking is a really useful new tool in SQL Server 2016. Keeping data safe is one of the most important tasks that a company has; this goes further than just making sure that users can only see their own data and hackers...
Jan 26, 2017 | DavidP, SQL Server, SQL Server 2016 |
By David PostlethwaiteI have just come back from a successful SQL Saturday in Vienna, Austria where I had 60 people listening to my presentation on SQL 2016 new features.It was interesting how many people still wanted to know about SQL Server 2016 even though it’s...
May 7, 2016 | DavidP, SQL Server, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server Blog, SQLBITS |
If you attended David’s session Putting your Head in the Clouds today at SQL Bits today you can download the create database script and his slide deck from the links below: Slides Scripts Also David mentioned his eBook in the talk today you can download that for free...
May 28, 2015 | Cloud, DavidP, Microsoft Azure |
By David PostlethwaiteOn the Database Scale page we can decide on the performance level that we want our database to have. There are three performance levels Basic, Standard and PremiumBasic is best suited for a small size database, supporting one single operation at...
