Server Roles and Azure Active Directory in an Azure SQL Database

This video explains the built in server roles in an Azure SQL Server and demonstrates how to give a login...

SOS - Save Our Souls or SQL Operations Manager

On Wednesday Microsoft Announced the release in preview of SQL Operations Studio (SOS)... What is that I hear you cry!...

Creating a Linked Server to an Azure SQL Database

Why would you create a Linked Server to an Azure SQL Database?

If you work in a hybrid environment with some...

Configuring Azure Data Sync

In this video David demonstrates how to configure Azure Data Sync 2.0 to synchronise an Azure SQL database with an...

Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases

Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases is pretty simple and straight forward,as long as you know what you need in...

Ebook: Putting Your Head in the Cloud: An Introduction to Cloud Computing and Azure SQL Database

David is delivering his Microsoft Azure for the SQL DBA talk this weekend in SQL Saturday Denmark. Go and see...

Kerberos Explained - Taming the Beast: Kerberos for the SQL Server DBA

David has a talk that he delivers at SQL Saturdays, all about Kerberos authentication.  What it is, how it works...

New in SQL Server 2017: Graph Databases

David has recorded and published a video of his presentation on SQL Server Graph Database. In his video which you...

SQL Server Express v SQL Server Developer Edition

SQL Server Express v  SQL Server Developer Edition

Over the weekend I received the following in an email from Ali Ahmad...

Video Tutorial: Creating a SQL Server Databases

In this Video tutorial we will look at creating a SQL Server database using both Management Studio and TSQL. We’ll...