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Brian Flynn Azure DevOps: Show Me the JSON! Creating resources in Azure, while not difficult, can be time consuming if you use the manual steps. One way to... 02 August 2018 11 min read
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PowerShell Robert Cain in PowerShell Create Azure VMs with PowerShell Part 2 The ability to quickly spin up a virtual machine is one of the great things about Azure. In this article,... 30 April 2018 16 min read
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Containers and Virtualization Laerte Junior in Containers and Virtualization Provisioning SQL Server Instances with Docker With SQL Server 2017, Microsoft announced the exciting news that SQL Server would now run in Docker containers. Laerte Junior... 16 April 2018 12 min read
Database Administration Seth Delconte in Database Administration Recover Data in SQL Server AWS RDS with the Help of BACPAC With Amazon RDS, it’s easy to have a SQL Server running in minutes. There are some limitations, though. Seth Delconte... 22 March 2018 15 min read
Database Administration Prashanth Jayaram in Database Administration Mount SQL Server DMVs and Custom Queries Using DBFS on Linux With SQL Server now supported on Linux, traditional SQL Server DBAs will need to learn how to work with Linux,... 20 March 2018 14 min read
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PowerShell Robert Cain in PowerShell PowerShell Functions for Reusability and Restartability in Azure The key to efficient development is reusability. When developing scripts for administration, being able to restart a script where it... 29 November 2017 15 min read
Infrastructure as a Service Feodor Georgiev in Infrastructure as a Service Automating Azure: Creating an On-Demand HDInsight Cluster This article pulls together the concepts from two previous articles to demonstrate a way to automate the “on-demand” creation and... 18 October 2017 11 min read
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