#ThankfulThursday

Wednesday March 13th 2024 I had the honor of speaking at the  Redgate Summit in Atlanta and got to meet a lot of new people and get to hang out with several good friends. I’ll be posting about that in a few days. A small group of us went out for dinner after the event […]

There Is Insufficient Free Space on Disk Volume To Create the Database

I have been involved in countless database migrations. Most of the time I have access to the existing source servers and future destination servers. In cases where you have access to both environments, it is very easy to evaluate and clean up any issues with the source databases. In situations where you are only provided […]

Getting Started With SQL Server Always Encrypted

Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 introduced a new security feature for SQL Server databases called Always Encrypted. Always Encrypted is a feature designed to protect sensitive data, such as national/regional identification numbers (Social Security numbers for those in the USA), credit card numbers, and other highly sensitive types of data. Always Encrypted allows […]

What is Azure SQL

I get asked about Azure SQL very often. This is a topic that I’ve written about and taught many times. To be honest, this is a rather large topic that can go in many different directions. For this post, I want to cover what I consider the basics of Azure SQL. For me, that is […]