Recently, I spent a few hours reading different sources and experimenting to build an Azure Logic App that listens for Azure Blob storage events and creates a new file in a SharePoint Document Library in another tenant. Here's how I put it all together. As you might expect, the key concern is "another tenant." Creating … Continue reading End-to-end: A Logic App to Copy an Azure Storage Blob to Another Tenant’s SharePoint Document Library
Category: SQL Server
End-to-end (E2E) encrypted communication is valuable and necessary. Many tools provide this. Recently, I’ve started using Keybase, not only because of its ability to provide E2E encrypted messaging but also because of its additional feature set. One key feature is the ability to link your identity on Keybase to your identity on other sites, including … Continue reading Importing a key or key pair in Keybase on Windows
In two days, October 31, 2019 at noon US Central time / 17:00 UTC, I will be presenting my talk "What's New in Azure SQL Database" for the PASS Cloud Virtual Group. If you'd like to attend, you can register at https://cloud.pass.org/MeetingDetails.aspx?EventID=14249. You'll need your PASS username and password. If you're not currently using Azure … Continue reading Presenting “What’s New in Azure SQL Database” Webinar for the PASS Cloud Virtual Group
Today, seemingly out of the blue, I was unable to connect to my MSSQLLocalDB instance of SQL Server Local DB. The error message I received indicated something went wrong during the login, purportedly with a trigger. Here's how I did some troubleshooting, research, and finally figured out a non-destructive way to get back in my … Continue reading Unable to Log In to SQL Server Local DB Due to Missing MDF File
I am writing this quick blog post because of a neat feature in Azure Data Studio that is currently undocumented in the official documentation: split terminal. Azure Data Studio, like VS Code which it's based on, supports an integrated terminal. You have a choice between PowerShell, cmd, or git bash. You can have multiple terminal … Continue reading Azure Data Studio: Split Terminal
In my post two days ago on silently installing SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services (SSRS 2017), I just provided the most basic information on configuration. In fact, after installing SSRS 2017, it will be completely unconfigured. Configuration can be done using the Reporting Service Configuration Manager GUI. In my case, the configuration needs to be … Continue reading Complete automated configuration of SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services
With the release of SQL Server 2017, Reporting Services is now a separate installation. The installer can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center and installed in either a free edition (Evaluation, Express, or Developer) or a paid edition with a product key. It can also be installed silently, and in this blog post, I … Continue reading Silent Installation and Configuration for SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services
Day 1 of Microsoft Connect 2017 was today. What a slew of announcements and new products/services! Here is my top 3: Visual Studio Live Share Don't tell me, show me! Share the current state of your code and debugger with someone else, next to you or across the world. It's for both Visual Studio 2017 … Continue reading Microsoft Connect(); 2017 Day 1 Announcements
Based on this question in the Microsoft Forums and the answer from Microsoft in a related Connect feedback item, you can install the Developer edition of SQL Server 2016 or 2017 silently using the Evaluation edition media if you specify the product ID (PID) of 22222-00000-00000-00000-00000. You will either specify this on the command line … Continue reading Silent Installation of SQL Server 2016 or 2017 Developer Edition from Evaluation installation media
SSMS 17 was released today. This is a quick first look at some of the additions and changes that immediately stand out to me.
Sven Aelterman 