Microsoft Trinidad and Tobago Azure Event

Tomorrow I will be giving a presentation about Azure SQL Database at the 'Innovating your Business with Microsoft's Cloud' event.

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First Post and Presentation for 2016

Happy New Year to all my readers! I promised that in 2016 I would do more blogging and presentations but January is almost over and I haven't done either as yet so I decided to kill two birds with one stone in one week.

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My Last Presentation For 2015

This Tuesday I will be one of the presenters at the Teleios event: Leveraging Microsoft Azure as part of your Cloud Journey. I will be discussing SQL Server in Azure VMs and Azure SQL Database so you can understand the options available for moving your SQL environment to Azure. Demonstrations will be done using the new Azure portal to show how to set up the environment and migrate databases from on premises to the two Azure options. Another presenter will be demonstrating how to setup a Domain Controller in Azure.

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Row-level Security Available for SQL Database

Earlier this week, Microsoft made Row-Level Security (RLS) available for SQL Database. This feature, which was released as a preview in January, allows the customer to control who has access to rows in their database table based on a user's characteristics such as identity, role and execution context.  The concept is similar to having  all the data is in one table and then using a query with predicates to decide what data is returned, the query doesn’t change only the values being used in the where clause changes.

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