Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Migrate all your Azure Storage Gen 1 to Gen 2 Need to migrate your Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 before Microsoft retires the service? This post from Dennes Torres explains... 11 April 2022 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Updating Powershell version in Azure CloudShell Azure Cloudshell uses PowerShell 7.2.1. However, Powershell 7.2.2 is already available and we have also a PowerShell version 7.3.0 in... 04 April 2022 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure Storage: Mapping File Shares and Powershell drives Mapping an Azure Storage Account file share on a local machine is a powerful feature. In this post, Dennes Torres... 28 March 2022 4 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs SQL Server Graph Tables – Cross Database Surprises Louis Davidson explains how to get around an interesting issue when doing cross-database queries involving graph database tables.… 21 March 2022 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Starting My New Book – Step 1 – Prepare computer(s) The main gist of this article is that if you are starting any project where you want to both teach... 17 March 2022 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure Storage Policies: Control SAS from the server side *Update at the end Azure Storage Policies are around for some time already, but they manage to stay unnoticed. This... 14 March 2022 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Power BI: ETL or not ETL, that’s the question ETL stands for Extract, Transform, and Load. Dennes Torres explains what an ETL tool is and isn't.… 07 March 2022 5 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Database Design Chats (and where the heck have I been?) This is going to be the last time I say it (well, at least on my blog). Last year sucked.... 04 March 2022 4 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure: Small Changes that Matter I believe I’m not alone on this feeling: It seems like every time we use the Azure Portal some new... 28 February 2022 7 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Saving and Sharing Log Analytics Query Update on 01/03/2022: There are two small mistakes on the article below. A) On the UI, the only Tag value... 31 January 2022 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Evaluating policies in a tenant-wide level and more Azure tricks I wrote many blogs about policies in Azure. First, I started talking about How essential Policies are. After that, I... 10 January 2022 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure and MFA Secrets MFA and conditional access policies are powerful tools for our cloud security, but they are full of tricks. I don’t... 27 December 2021 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Case Study: Troubleshooting Site Recovery A silly mistake, a site recovery error and a troubleshooting case study, let’s check how it happened. I was demonstrating... 20 December 2021 3 min read
Dennes Torres Linking a Virtual Machine with Azure Active Directory Microsoft has made it possible to integrate Azure Active Directory with Virtual Machines. In this post, Dennes Torres walks you... 13 December 2021 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure SQL: Enforcing Azure AD Only Authentication Some time ago I wrote a blog about the just released feature to allow only Azure Authentication in Azure SQL... 06 December 2021 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Query Store and hints: More Powerful than ever Dennes Torres explains how Query Store hints work in Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance.… 29 November 2021 6 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Dynamic Data Mask is now useful and no one noticed it Dynamic data mask is a very interesting security feature allowing us to mask critical fields such as e-mail, phone number,... 22 November 2021 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Dependency Hell: Past and Future Saying that I’m from the time of the MDAC would be to break the main rule of never reveal our... 15 November 2021 6 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs SQL Elevated Configuration: The fail-safe for maintenance Many years ago, in the company I was working for, one junior DBA started a reindex operation in a SQL... 08 November 2021 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Data Factory: Use a SQL Query to create a Data Source When we include a data source inside a data flow it always requests a dataset. The dataset, in turn, requires... 01 November 2021 2 min read
