Updated on the 10th of February after being pointed out by Dmitri Furman and Greg Low that as a matter of a fact a whole group of AAD users can be set as a Azure SQL Server administrators. The current…
Protecting SQL Server on Azure VMs
I have been working with Azure for a good number of years and felt that I wanted to share more of my experiences, since the migration to Azure (or to any cloud whatsoever) in the times of pandemic is growing…
SQL Server 2019 – Improved Certificate Management
There was one little feature in SQL Server that went pretty much unnoticed by the most people, and the reason for that is not something to be mostly happy about – most people do not use this or any other…
Resumable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Scan
This time I would like to write about Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and more specifically a new feature that is available in Sql Server 2019 and as a Azure SQL Database. The already announced and available feature is called Resumable…
Sql Server 2019 Standard Edition Changes (Yeah, TDE-ah!)
The upcoming release of Sql Server 2019 which is largely expected to take place during PASS Summit 2019 & Ignite 2019 simultaneously (and given that Rohan Kumar (Microsoft VP) seems to be present only at the PASS Summit, I am…