The Seferlis Blog

The Azure IoT Hub is a two-way communication platform between the solution backend and the IoT devices themselves that allows you to manage, maintain and provision devices into your infrastructure...

Having a data/disaster recovery site or plan in place is crucial today, whether for compliance or to ensure if anything does happen, then your business will still be able to operate. Today’s episode...

Introduction to Azure Data Factory Are you new to Azure, or looking to make the move and curious about what Azure Data Factory is? Azure Data Factory is Microsoft’s cloud version of a data integration...

Over the past 7 or 8 years, I’ve gone from “0 to 60” when it comes to database design, development, ETL and BI.  Most of the skills I’ve learned were a result of mistakes...

Recently I was presenting a session on Microsoft’s Power View in what I had intended to be my final time presenting the session before retiring it to the archives.  Unfortunately the...

Now that I’m doing some more development of dashboards in the Power View interface, I thought it might be helpful to post about some of the date “gotchas” I’ve run in to with...

I was attempting to create a database diagram with the SSMS 2012 diagramming tool today and ran into the following issue: “Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an...

While rehearsing my demo for my upcoming session at SQL Saturday Boston this weekend, #sqlsat500 where I will be lecturing and demonstrating Scratching the Surface of Power View, I noticed a quirky...

Have you run in to issues where your SSRS column headers just won’t scroll with the data?  How about losing the column headers when you go to your next page?  Well, there seems to be some...