I thank Elizabeth Noble (blog|twitter) for hosting T-SQL Tuesday #123. The topic for this month is Automate Your Stress Away. I also want to acknowledge Adam Machanic’s vision behind this project. I learned a lot from some of the #TSQL Tuesday’s and participated in a few. Thank you, Steve Jones (blog|twitter), for coordinating this program. If you […]
I am writing this blog post for my own reference for future. Hopefully someone will be benefited in the process. Recently I was working on upgrading System Center Operations Manager and configuring alert for high CPU. I wanted the alert to trigger if CPU was above a certain percent for x consecutive polls. While simulating […]
Data Discovery & Classification is supported for SQL Server 2012 and later, and can be used with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 17.5 or later. Starting SSMS 18.5, a new feature called ‘sensitivity rank’ was added in Data Classification. I will show details about the sensitivity rank in this blog post. I want to thank David Trigano, Program […]
With the announcement of Powershell support in Azure Functions, it has become easier for data professionals to use functions to manage cloud resources such as Azure SQL Database, Managed Instances. A common challenge when using functions is how to manage the credentials in function code for authenticating databases. Keeping the credentials secure is an important […]
Filtered Index in SQL Server and Parameterized Query does not work well with each other. This incompatibility is a well-known issue among Data Professionals. If you do a Google search for ‘SQL Server unmatched index‘ you find many articles written by well-known bloggers in the SQL Server community. I am quoting a summary of the […]
