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Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting Becomes a Microsoft Silver Partner Again
I’m pleased to be able to announce that Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting has become a Microsoft Silver Partner for Cloud Platform (also known as Azure). This is an important milestone for...
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Splitting Files for SQL DW
When doing data warehouse loads into SQL DW you’ll want to break your single large file that you extract into multiple smaller files in order to do loads into the SQL DW (via Azure Blob Storage) as...
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Be Careful When Starting Up Azure VMs Running SQL Server
So Microsoft has done something pretty dumb with the Azure VMs which are running Microsoft SQL Server. By default the front end firewall (the one that allows or blocks traffic from the public Internet...
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Connecting To SQL Server Running On An Azure VM
If you have setup a Windows Azure Virtual Machine running SQL Server you may have noticed that you might not be able to connect to the SQL Server running on the machine by using SQL Server Management...
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Upgrading a SQL FCI to Premium Storage in Azure Without Downtime
Recently I was asked by a client to upgrade their SQL Server Failover Cluster from standard storage to Azure premium storage with as little downtime as possible. Due to the fact that the SQL Server...
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In Azure CApS MatTers
Recently I was doing some work for a client moving some vDisks from standard storage to premium storage. Overall it was a pretty easy migration to do, just requiring a little PowerShell to make it all...
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