Troubleshooting “slow” reports in PowerBI Report Server (or SQL Server Reporting Services) can be an arduous task. End users are…
Delegated authentication (or double-hop authentication as it’s sometimes called) is a common requirement with SQL servers that are using Kerberos…
When organizations become aware of the On-premises Data Gateway application, there can be an explosion in the number of gateways…
Recently I started getting random alerts that a job on one of the SQL servers was failing because of a…
Recently I was working on rolling out a new PowerBI Report Server, along with migrating our 2014-based SQL Server Reporting…
First, thanks to Sean McCown (@KenpoDBA) at MinionWare (@heyMinionware) for the help troubleshooting. Recently I had to rename a SQL…
Azure storage, as a backup destination for SQL backups, is a great option for organizations that are contemplating replacing older…
SQL Server natively supports 3 types of backups: Full, Differential and Log. Full backups take a complete backup of the…
This is one article in a series that cover how to use PowerShell scripts to automatically install SQL Server. The full script set can be found here. High availability in production SQL Servers is often a desirable feature.…
Sometimes it is necessary to apply or fail multiple transactions together (all changes succeed or all changes fail). This can…