SQL Server Data Pages on Linux
One of the new phrases coming out of Microsoft is that “SQL is just SQL” regardless of what operating system it resides on. This was echoed during the keynote at SQL Bits 2019 by the Microsoft team, which you can watch here. Later that weekend, I gave a session about database internals. My presentation is […]
Checking Open Ports in Azure
Let’s be honest here, data security is really important to me. Some people probably think that I go to extremes to ensure that my data as well as my customers data is secured. With that, sometime ago, I wrote a blog post on utilizing a VPN server that I built on an Azure Virtual Machine […]
Secure Travel
Traveling in today’s age of technology is a lot easier than in the past. You can start your journey in the morning of one country and be half way across the world by nights end. When traveling, data security is usually always at the forefront of my mind. I recently traveled to a conference. While […]
Restoring a Database from Azure
In a previous post, I described how you can use Azure storage to store SQL Server database backup files. This flexible option offers the ability to get your critical backups off site and in certain regions, they could be configured to be automatically redundant to a secondary region. Having backups of your backups is a […]