PASS Data Community Summit
Keynote speakers for Summit 2023 have been announced! Who will you go see on the main stage? If you’re not already on the mailing list, sign up now and be the first to know all Summit 2023 updates.
2023-07-12
Additional Articles
Using Virtual Network Data Gateways to Secure Access to Azure SQL in Power BI
Power BI and Azure are two related services, but with a considerable independence between them. Power BI share the Azure Tenant for security management, but in relation to networking, they are in completely different environments.
2023-07-12
Enterprises that adopt Database DevOps save an average of $4.3M per year (Video)
If treated well, the database can be a major accelerator in your business’s efficiency. It can be the star performer in your migration to the cloud, in your move to micro services and other change initiatives. Find out how the database can be the hero in your digital transformation or change initiative.
2023-07-10
Influencing Successful Cloud Transformational Change
By developing a strong business case, building key relationships, using budgeting and forecasting tools, and providing training and support, tech leaders can effectively sell the benefits of the cloud and influence change.
2023-07-10
Starter Metadata T-SQL Query Examples for Databases and Tables
SQL Server provides lots of information about various aspects of server and database objects and this data is referred to as metadata. Understanding what is available and how to use this metadata can greatly enhance and streamline how you can work with SQL Server.
2023-07-07
Storing Credentials Securely on a Windows-based Flyway Installation
This article demonstrates how to use PowerShell to fetch your login credentials from Windows Credential Manager and pipe them securely to Flyway without ever saving them in any form, such as in a file or environment variable.
2023-07-07
First speakers announced for Summit 2023
Your first speakers in the lineup for PASS Data Community Summit 2023 have been announced! Check out the full details for this year's Pre-Cons and Learning Pathways, and find out why some of our speakers are particularly excited for what’s in store this year.
2023-07-05
The difference between libraries and frameworks
The concept behind frameworks and libraries is to provide reusable code that you can use to perform everyday tasks so that developers don’t have to write all of the code from scratch for every project. However, there are some differences that you need to understand as you start writing code, which I will cover in this article.
2023-07-05
SQL Server Database Backup and Restore Failure Notifications
My SQL Server backups and restores fail infrequently, but when I find out it is too late. How can I find out sooner?
2023-07-03
Searching Flyway Migration Files using Grep and Regex
This article demonstrates a cross-RDBMS way of searching through a set of SQL migration files, in the right order, to get a narrative summary of what changes were made, or will be made, to one or more of the tables or routines within each migration file. Getting these summary reports, even from a set of SQL migrations, isn't difficult, but having a few examples makes it a lot quicker to get started.
2023-06-30
Blogs
Microsoft Purview GA menu’s
By James Serra
The new data governance features in Microsoft Purview are now being made generally available...
Connect to Power BI as a Guest User in another Tenant
Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added...
Parsing EXE Output in PowerShell
By Steve Jones
I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell...
Forums
GIT Configuration and Automated Release for Azure Data Factory
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SQL2019 Extended Events missing EVENT debug_channel and EVENT sqlsni.trace ?
I want to detect usage of TLS on our SQL Server 2019 instances. Copilot...
Bad Stored Procedures
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