Late last Friday night, Microsoft announced that it was retiring the Microsoft Professional Program. The reaction from many was a general “WTH is that anyway?” Frequent readers of this blog will recognize the program where I earned certifications in Data Science, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence. I was also just shy of certifications in Cybersecurity … Read more
I am happy, honored, and humbled to receive the Microsoft MVP award for the eleventh straight year. I still recall my first MVP award and how it got caught in the company spam folder. Good times.
SQL injection is a common form of data theft. I am hopeful we can make SQL injection protection more common. The 2018 TrustWave Global Security Report listed SQL Injection as the second most common technique for web attacks, trailing only cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This is a 38% increase from the previous year. That same … Read more
Building upon my earlier post, today I want to share with you the updated graphic and links for the analytics and big data services offered by Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. It is my hope that this post will be a starting guide for you when you need to research these analytic and big … Read more
Last year I wrote a post comparing the data services offered by both AWS and Microsoft Azure. Well, there’s been some changes since, so it was time to provide an updated graphic and links. Since both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services offer many data services, I thought it worth the time to create a … Read more
SQL Server ships with an internal system function, PWDCOMPARE(), that we can use to find SQL logins with weak passwords.
