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Persisting statistics sampling rate
When SQL Server creates or updates statistics and a sampling rate is not manually specified, SQL Server calculates a default sampling rate. Depending on the real distribution of data in the underlying...
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DevOps Self Assessment from DORA, ITRev and MS
Nicole Forsgren, Gene Kim, participants of the DevOps Enterprise Forum and I collaborated on a free starter self-assessment for your team's DevOps performance. It's now available at...
View ArticleFacing issues with applying SP2/SP3 for SQL 2008 R2 FCI
One of my clients happened to encounter an issue upgrading the SQL server 2008 R2 instance from SP2 to SP3. We were able to pass the major part of the wizard and at the final Installation Progress bar...
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Persisting statistics sampling rate
Cross post with http://aka.ms/sqlserverteam When SQL Server creates or updates statistics and a sampling rate is not manually specified, SQL Server calculates a default sampling rate. Depending on the...
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Automating Windows as a Service
TL;DR; Bold lines are important. Blue lines are most important. WaaS is not something "Microsoft-special" and nowadays there is this cruel necessity to hold up the pace and adopt the newest...
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.NET Core Test Explorer for Visual Studio Code
Several years ago, could you image that you could develop .NET on your favourite OS (macOS, Linux or Windows) with great developer experience? Now, the dream comes true. With the .NET Core and Visual...
View ArticleCongratulations Team X.GLU – The 2017 Imagine Cup Champions!
Young developers often dream of changing the world with the technology they build. And Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is on a mission to empower today’s sharpest minds worldwide to do exactly that. Now in...
View ArticleIntegración de Azure B2C en una aplicación de Xamarin Forms utilizando MSAL
En este artículo veremos cómo crear una sencilla aplicación Xamarin Forms, que muestra cómo usar MSAL para autenticar usuarios a través de Azure Active Directory B2C y acceder a una API Web ASP.NET con...
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Improving university chemistry students engagement with OneNote, Cloud and...
Dr Sylvia Urban, senior lecturer at Melbourne’s RMIT University School of Science has undertaken research to quantify the effect of technology on learning outcomes in a recent study titled Pen-Enabled,...
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Microsoft Australia Partner Awards: Up close and personal with a Cloud for...
Cloud for Good – what it really means to use the cloud to transform lives Microsoft’s mission is “to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more.” As the reach and...
View ArticleTalking bots at NDC Sydney 2017
Talking bots at NDC This year at NDC we have four talks tackling the new(ish) area of conversational platforms and bots. Each talk takes a slightly different approach to bot building - some more...
View Article7 Tips to Master Automated Email Marketing Workflows and Use Them to Promote...
Guest post by Gloria Kopp- CEO at Studydemic. While a whole lot of modern marketing is very cutting edge and up to the minute, based on analytical data and social media trends, there are also plenty of...
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What Do You Mean My Windows Container isn’t Running?
This post on troubleshooting Windows container connectivity issues between Visual Studio and containers comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Rob Vettor. The Windows Containers tooling is...
View ArticleAzure Monitor notifications available in Azure Germany
We are happy to announce the general availablility of Azure Monitor notifications for Azure Germany. With Azure Monitor, you can monitor services running on Azure to gain infrastructure-level data...
View ArticleAccelerating the Partner-led Digital Transformation of Australian Government...
Last month at Microsoft Inspire, we saw examples of the power of our partner ecosystem in driving the digital transformation of healthcare, government and education. In Australia, thousands of...
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Git vulnerability with submodules
The Git community has disclosed a serious security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution. This has been assigned CVE 2017-1000117. The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team...
View ArticlePerformance Issues with Visual Studio Team Services – 08/15 – Resolved
Update: Tuesday, 15 August 2017 04:04 UTC We’ve confirmed that the Database SKU upgrade helped in mitigating the impact at Tuesday, August 15th 2017 03:05 UTC. However, a fix is being rolled out to...
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Build PowerBI Real Time Dashboards through Streaming Set with Python
PowerBI supports streaming dataset through an API that can be used to constantly push data to the service for real-time refresh. This post outlines the steps to accomplish it with Python script....
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New Team. New Role. Accelerating Next Gen BI and Analytics
When I published my, “The End of an Era” post back in June, I shared some insights into the expedition I have been on and the path that I’ve been travelling down in pursuit of driving advanced Business...
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