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Bob Ward and I worked with our SQL Server Tool developers (thanks David) to enable ‘Quick XE Trace’ capabilities. The feature is available in the latest SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) release.
De… Continue reading SQL Server Management Studio Provides–“XE Profiler”
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I have found the term DTC is used in many ways so for the purposes of the discussion here are a few terms. When talking DTC, I am talking about the feature set, MSDTC as the OLE-TX implementation and XA for the X/Ope… Continue reading How It Works: SQL Server DTC (MSDTC and XA Transactions)
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SQL Server on Linux uses the GSSAPI and SSSD service for Active Directory (AD) authentication activities. Thus, Kerberos is the path for success for AD authentication and just in case you ha… Continue reading SQL Server on Linux: Kerberos Troubleshooting, Hints and Tips and Hard Code Debugging
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Prior to SQL Server 2017 CU4 for Linux (Linux only) the generation of a sequential UUID may not function as expected. SQL Server’s NewSequentialId() calls the Windows API UuidCreateSequential, whi… Continue reading SQL Server on Linux: CU4 – NewSequentialId() – Uuid
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What does improving resource usage on smaller machines really mean? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4078095
SQL Server is designed to scale across the spectrum of small machines to enterprise class servers.&n… Continue reading SQL Server 2017 Improved Resource Usage On Smaller Machines
We are delighted to announce the public preview for Azure AD Identity Protection for workload identities! This work comes from working with our customers as we apply all we’ve learned from protecting user accounts to workload identities, especially in … Continue reading Extend the reach of Azure AD Identity Protection into workload identities
Last July we announced the acquisition of CloudKnox Security, a leader in Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM). As an important move in our multicloud security vision, we have made tremendous progress integrating CloudKnox into our techno… Continue reading CloudKnox Permissions Management is now in Public Preview
Today, 92% of organizations embrace a multicloud strategy. Reasons range from having maximum flexibility to choose between cloud services, to cost optimization. While there are many benefits to using multiple cloud vendors, security teams often struggl… Continue reading Protect your Google Cloud workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud