Mat Stephen's Azure Data Services Blog
All things Azure Data Services (previously All things SQL Server). Complied by Matthew Stephen - Data Solutions Architect (Azure), Microsoft UK
Data sharing is challenging GDPR – Essential considerations from Safeguard individual privacy with...
Date: 12/29/2018
A useful PowerShell script I use for sending events to Azure Event Hub demos Login-AzureRmAccount...
Date: 09/17/2018
I've been helping a customer to get started with R - here's my digest which no doubt I'll be adding...
Date: 02/13/2018
As often happens - I meet a series of customers who are keen to learn about something, Power BI in...
Date: 10/30/2017
For a list of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services and demonstrations you can use with your own inputs...
Date: 07/26/2017
After an 11 year break - I'm coming back to blogging - but I'm not who I used to be. I started this...
Date: 06/07/2017
Reposted 10/1/06 to include in 'free tools' category I'm constantly asked "what's Microsoft doing...
Date: 01/03/2006
Many things have changed with SQL 2005, correspondingly we have to change the way we think about...
Date: 01/03/2006
I guess now the pressure is off to release the product we'll see more useful samples comming out of...
Date: 01/02/2006
Overview The Feature Pack is a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional...
Date: 11/28/2005
Our launch roadshow, here in the UK, was totally over subscribed. So here's another chance to gem up...
Date: 11/24/2005
During, what I hope was viewed as a successful day, many people asked where they could find the...
Date: 11/10/2005
Here's a little self publicity for gig I'll be doing in December: To register please go to...
Date: 11/01/2005
Some people around here (in the UK) just have too much time on their hands, check this out for a...
Date: 10/24/2005
It is with sadness that I have to announce that I am changing jobs and moving back into my old role...
Date: 10/06/2005
After my recent SQL 2k5 BI session, here at TVP Reading, I had an enquiry asking for more info...
Date: 10/04/2005
UK SQL User Group Presents: "Concurrency in SQL Server 2005, Kalen Delaney Full Day Seminar: 18th Oct 2005."
Tony Rogerson of the UK SQL User group has asked me to advertise this event. I think it will be of...
Date: 09/28/2005
New SQL Server 2005 Technical Overview blogcasts from the States Demo 1-1 Using Object Explorer...
Date: 09/27/2005
Edited 21st Sept 05 to include picture of herbarium sheet. In my article 'Business Intelligence...
Date: 09/19/2005
Edited 20/9/05 to correct typos As Paul Flessner says in his letter...
Date: 09/16/2005
At a recent Technet presentation, someone came up to me and asked me if I could post my Fuzzy Logic...
Date: 09/15/2005
Its not really SQL Server, but this short 16min video comes from the guy who ultimately takes...
Date: 09/13/2005
Looks likes I've got to do a presentation on Service Broker for the SQL 2005 launch - so I've been...
Date: 09/12/2005
SQL 2005: Making sense of the new Optimistic Concurrency Controls and the readers that block writers
For a long time now Oracle enthusiasts have bashed SQL Server for not having Optimistic Concurrency...
Date: 09/06/2005
The tag line for IT Forum is "3 days of learning one year of solutions" - I'm sure you can sell that...
Date: 09/06/2005
SQL Server has long been criticised for not having an UPSERT command, well now in SQL 2005 we have...
Date: 08/31/2005
For sometime a group of Program Managers from the SQL BI team have been working with a customer,...
Date: 08/30/2005
More and more ITPros are looking for help in deciding between 64 bit and 32 bit boxes, often they...
Date: 08/25/2005
Jonathan Allen wrote to me asking what order one should upgrade servers in a replication topology -...
Date: 08/23/2005
Redmondmag.com have published an article 'Ten Useful Microsoft Blogs' @...
Date: 08/19/2005
Blogcasts: SQL Server 2000 - Configuring System Monitor & Monitoring SQL Server performance & Configuring alerts
Three new SQL Server 2000 blogcasts out of Redmond: Demo 4-1 Configuring System Monitor...
Date: 08/19/2005
Max degree of parallelism is an advanced configuration option in SQL Server about which many...
Date: 08/19/2005
Sudhi recently asked me how to call an aspx page from a report and pass a parameter held in a...
Date: 08/19/2005
If you're in the UK and you'd like to get your hands on the 'Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Preview...
Date: 08/18/2005
when I was over in the US recently, I attended a 'Bill Baker and team unplugged' session, (Bill is...
Date: 08/16/2005
Follow up on XPs and SQLiMail question from SQL Server™ 2005 Management and Admin TechNet evening 28/7/05
Sorry for the delay in getting these answers posted but my trip to the US and some hols have got in...
Date: 08/12/2005
I've had a really hard time with my iPaq today. First thing this morning I couldn't get it to...
Date: 08/02/2005
I'm in Seattle this week at Microsoft's first TechReady conference. What's more I'm totally mobile;...
Date: 08/01/2005
Last night at the TechNet evening in Reading I was asked if we are planning an upgrade event. I...
Date: 07/29/2005
More and more people are asking me about SQL 2005 training courses and certification. I believe the...
Date: 07/29/2005
The US marketing people for the Visual Studio and SQL Server product teams are pleased to announce...
Date: 07/28/2005
Here's another blogcast in the SQL 2000 performance blogcast series out of the States - this time...
Date: 07/22/2005
I'm grateful to T.K. Anand for this useful code snippet which is useful if you're writing a web...
Date: 07/21/2005
If you were given an opportunity to create a “cubed” solution for 50,000 different users, would you...
Date: 07/20/2005
Are you still using @@IDENTITY? It seems many people are. If you are, are you aware that it might...
Date: 07/19/2005
A colleague of mine in the States, Rob Caron, is very keen to learn how our customers are deploying...
Date: 07/18/2005
Not many people know we have a SQL JDBC driver at all, well now we've got a beta version for SQL...
Date: 07/15/2005
Good news for the chap I met on the 'Ask the Experts' desk at TechEd, who was contemplating jumping...
Date: 07/14/2005