(James Serra) There are times when you need to create a “quick and dirty” solution to build a report. This blog will show you one way of using a few Azure products to accomplish that.

(Manoj) Azure HDInsight is a standard Apache Hadoop distribution offered as a managed service on Microsoft Azure. It is based on the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and provisioned as clusters on Azure. The clusters can be created on your choice of Windows or Linux Servers.

(Pinal Dave) Just the other day one of the readers sent me following email after reading my earlier blog post: STRING_SPLIT Function Performance Comparison. He really liked the new feature of SQL Server 2016 and decided to start using this new feature.

(Haroon Ashraf) As a SQL Server database developer or database DevOps engineer my development team has been tasked to include reference data with the database(s) so that deploying the database should populate the reference tables on any target environment which can help maintain the reference data t

(Pinal Dave) SQL installation and parching are the processes which every DBA has to do. Some smart DBAs do this via script and some go with a manual approach.

(blobeater) Last year I wrote about Azure SQL Database extended events (https://blobeater.blog/2017/02/06/using-extended-events-in-azure/) and gave an example where I was capturing deadlocks via the ring buffer.

(Darko Martinoviæ) Microsoft In-Memory OLTP was introduced with SQL Server 2014. In the pre-release mode, I saw quite a few videos that demonstrate the strength of this new technology.

(JoeMVP) I had a need the other day to build a PowerShell script to automate some tasks for installing a solution I built.

(Grant Fritchey) Twice recently, one on a blog post, and one in a forum post, I’ve seen people state, unequivocally, without reservation or hint of a caveat, that, “Oh, just put that query into a view. It will run faster.”

(Kenneth Fisher) Impersonation is a highly useful tool in your toolbox. With the EXECUTE AS clause you can allow your stored procedure to do things that the user doesn’t have permission to.