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
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Routing Access to Azure Services Azure is part of the Microsoft Global Network. Applications in the Azure environment can receive access from the entire world.... 25 October 2021 4 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Creating Views in Azure Portal Resource groups and subscriptions sometimes are not enough to organize the content of our Azure Portal. I was preparing for... 18 October 2021 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs ARM Template Visualizer Recently a new feature appeared in Azure Portal, an ARM Template Visualizer, capable to show a graphic view of the... 11 October 2021 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Template Specs: Storing ARM templates on Azure Infrastructure as code is evolving in large steps to improve the way we build and manage cloud infrastructure. ARM templates... 04 October 2021 5 min read
