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Partial results in a query of a clustered columnstore index in SQL Server 2014
As part of continuous improvement of the quality of SQL Server, we add new tests to stress the features in various ways. We recently discovered a corruption issue in clustered columnstore index in SQL...
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AlwaysOn Availability Group Automation Part 2
Last post I talked about the function NewCustomAg which allows you to create availability groups. After running it, you will have an availability group created with one or no databases. Most likely...
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Sorry for the interruption, but it doesn't happen often
Many years ago, my feature manager and I were called into the project leader's office for some reason or other, I forget exactly what. We were about five minutes into the meeting when the project...
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web.config for Zend Framework Project on Azure Apps
When you deploy Zend Framework project to Azure Apps, the web.config provided by Zend (http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/project-structure.rewrite.html) maybe not fit. Here is how to modify...
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Team Siymb from Exeter - Representing the UK at the World Wide Imagine Cup...
The 2015 World Semi-Finals round of the Imagine Cup are now complete, this year we had over 150 teams from 64 countries competing. Team Siymb from Exeter University will be representing the UK in the...
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Gestion de conformité : DCM ou DSC ?
Si nous avons eu l’occasion de travailler ensemble, vous savez déjà mon attachement à la standardisation et, par voie de conséquence, à l’utilisation de techniques permettant de gérer des réglages de...
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Smartphone app takes aim at noise pollution
Smartphone app takes aim at noise pollutionA service under development will use crowdsourced measurements to map urban noise, potentially providing information to inform effective noise-abatement...
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Visual Studio Code and Docker
Visual Studio Code at DockerCon 2015 NOTE: This post is about a cool demo we did at DockerCon which highlights some of the plugin support work we are doing. At the moment this is just a demo and not...
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Duplicate SPN: What is it really?
If you look at many of the references regarding Kerberos troubleshooting, one of the common recommendations is to verify duplicate service principal names (SPNs) do not exist. I mention this myself in...
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Free Microsoft Press Ebook - Microsoft System Center: Data Protection for the...
If you're responsible for architecting and designing the backup strategy for yourorganization—especially if you're looking for ways to incorporate cloud backupinto your business continuity...
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The Journey of an Azure SDK Upgrade
Editor’s note: The following post was written by Microsoft Azure MVP Frank Boucher as part of our Technical Tuesday series. Recently, with my team, we needed to upgrade a web solution to Azure SDK from...
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How to collect troubleshooting log in Windows Phone
My Windows Phone (Lumia Icon) has recently run into some trouble when I upgrade it from Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows Phone 10 Preview. It constantly reports the error “0x80070002” and fails the...
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Building a Daily Ubuntu image for Hyper-V
After getting my Windows Image Factory up and running – the next thing I started to look at was how to create an “always up-to-date Ubuntu image”. To solve this problem I ended up taking a very...
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[Webinar] Microsoft Power BI Preview Technical Overview
Are you familiar with the Power BI preview but want to drill down on the technical details and capabilities of the service?Join Sanjay Soni, Technical Product Marketing Manager for Power BI on Tuesday,...
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Using Win2D to apply effects on your files
It’s been a long time since my last post about C# but I’m still using it, mainly for a personal project: UrzaGatherer 3.0.Version 2.0 was done using WinJS and JavaScript but because I love discovering...
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DSC Resource Kit flourishes as open source
We are excited to announce the recent updates which were made to DSC Resource Kit since open sourcing it on GitHub! We were working hard on improving coverage and robustness of DSC as well as saw...
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The new Get Data experience
Over the last four months we’ve been adding support for new SaaS services in Power BI, on a weekly basis, providing users with rich, out of the box dashboards and reports in just a few clicks! As we...
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Cloud, Azure, DevOps, Love and Hate
Early in 2007 or 2008, the one and only, DigUnix got back from an overnight hack-a-thon. During this thon he was introduced to running Linux boxes in Amazon’s datacenters. Till then, he and I used to...
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Custom News RSS Feeds from Bing and Google News
You can find bing and google news RSS feed from here and learn how to customize it:http://scottge.net/2015/06/23/custom-news-rss-feeds-from-bing-and-google-news/
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