Medtronic—Your Information Security is Garbage
My wife is a Type 1 diabetic, and uses an Medtronic insulin pump to maintain her blood sugar at healthy levels. While the device performs its job adequately, the surrounding software has always been a total disaster. Whether it’s requiring outdated operating systems or browsers, or the use of Java, Kelly has always had great […]
Azure SQL Analytics—Automating Deployment
One of the cool feature additions to Azure SQL Database is Azure SQL Analytics, an additional feature that connects your Azure SQL Database to Azure Log Analytics. You can use this in conjunction with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, or Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools. Once this is configured you can see all […]
My SQL Saturday Chicago Precon–Managing and Architecting Azure Data Platform
After the MVP Summit in March, I’m headed to Chicago to speak at SQL Saturday Chicago, and on Friday March 22nd, I’ll be delivering an all-day training session on the Azure Data Platform. The term data platform is somewhat of a Microsoft marketing term, but we will talk about a wide variety of topics that […]
Exporting Masked Data with Dynamic Data Masking
The SQL Herald | Databases et al… Dynamic Data Masking is a presentation layer that got added to Azure SQL DB and SQL Server 2016. In a nutshell it prevents end users from seeing sensitive data, and lets administrators show some data (e.g. the last 4 digits of social security number) for verification purposes. I’m […]