December 2021 sees the return of the month-long Festive Tech Calendar with a whole host of content being released every day. There’s loads of exciting things happening in this month-long extravaganza with videos, blogs, quizzes, podcasts, and activities to entertain and educate. Topics include Azure, Teams and Viva, …

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Troubleshooting connectivity between application and database servers in Azure. Symptoms An application server in Azure can’t connect to an IaaS SQL Server on Windows (also in Azure). The Connection Troubleshoot utility in the Azure Portal says network connectivity between the App server and SQL server on port 1433 is …

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DBI-B220 - Introduction to SQL Server Management for the Non-DBA A very interesting and entertaining session to round off Tuesday. This covered the things IT Pros need to do when they need to run SQL Server- backups, restores, checking for corruption, and more. Here are my 5 key points from the session. This was …

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