Creating a Hyperscale Database in Azure Using the Azure Portal (2023-12-22)

SQLServerCentral Newsletter for December 22, 2023 Problems displaying this newsletter? [View online](. [SQL Server Central]( Featured Contents - [Creating a Hyperscale Database in Azure Using the Azure Portal]( - [What is Microsoft Fabric all about?]( - [From the SQL Server Central Blogs - How to Test Trace Flag 3625]( - [From the SQL Server Central Blogs - Executing One Line in VSCode–#SQLNewBlogger]( - [Microsoft Power Platform Up and Running: Learn to Analyze Data, Create Solutions, Automate Processes, and Develop Virtual Agents with Low Code Programming]( Question of the Day - [The PowerShell Array Removal]( The Voice of the DBA  Building CyberSecurity Skills with an Advent Challenge I've been working on the [Advent of Cyber challenge]( this December. It's more of a walkthrough of some puzzles than it is solving them yourself, but it has given me a brush up on some skills and helped me learn some basics of how people in charge of (or looking to break) security look at the world. Plus it's been a little fun with a silly storyline each day. The first challenge starts with a chatbot and trying to social engineer answers out of it. This was interesting to me, even though it was likely (hopefully) not a representative example of how AIs would work in most systems. However, it got me to think more about how I pose questions to an AI and how I can grow my prompts. The neat thing about AI is that you don't have to ask the perfect question and then re-ask the same question with more info to get an answer. The AI keeps context in a conversation, which is way more powerful than previous Q&A search systems. The second day was Python and Jupyter Notebook basics, which were a nice refresher for me on a couple of concepts, but not that interesting. However, the third day introduced some password-cracking tools, the fourth day added other ones, and a few subsequent days showed some software that is devious in how it can be used to penetrate security. Other challenges have me the chance to brush up on Linux and network skills I hadn't used in a long time. The SQL Injection module (day 10) is well done, and I might recommend most developers go through that to see why their easy, convenient build-a-sql-string-to-execute code is an incredibly bad idea. It's also why they can't also use stored procedures as built-up batch commands. Use the stored procedure objects to execute with named parameters. The idea of using a little plot and story, with a simple challenge to teach some skills is a good one. I've been lucky in my career to be exposed to a lot of different technologies and ways of working with systems. I've set up bridges, routers, and firewalls. I've had to get network links and cables to work and talk with different protocols, including configuring T1 connections. I've built machines, dealt with different types of local and remote storage, and had to program and administer systems at all levels of the [OSI model.]( Does anyone remember that? This was a fun break from work, doing a module or two every other day, remembering there are a lot of complexities to our systems outside the database, or outside the application software. It's also reminded me of all the different ways that security can be breached. Take the challenge and learn some new skills. I think many of you will learn something and you might enjoy yourself along the journey. Steve Jones - SSC Editor [Join the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums](   Featured Contents [SQLServerCentral Article]( [Creating a Hyperscale Database in Azure Using the Azure Portal]( Almighty from SQLServerCentral One of the most effective ways to fully utilize your data is to create an Azure Hyperscale database. The principles of Azure Hyperscale databases have been discussed in this article, including their cost-effectiveness, worldwide accessibility, automatic scaling, and reliable performance. [External Article]( [What is Microsoft Fabric all about?]( Additional Articles from SimpleTalk In this article, we will introduce Microsoft Fabric and how it relates to Power BI Premium Capacity we will turn to the mechanics of capacity utilization, and we will briefly look at how to monitor the performance loads of our Fabric resources. [Blog Post]( From the SQL Server Central Blogs - [How to Test Trace Flag 3625]( Patrick Keisler from Everyday SQL Recently, one of my customers considered enabling Trace Flag 3625 on one of their SQL Servers, but they wanted a way to quickly test its functionality beforehand. For those... [Blog Post]( From the SQL Server Central Blogs - [Executing One Line in VSCode–#SQLNewBlogger]( Steve Jones - SSC Editor from The Voice of the DBA I wrote about arrays in PowerShell last week, but I realized one of the things I did while experimenting was look up how to run code a line at... [Microsoft Power Platform Up and Running: Learn to Analyze Data, Create Solutions, Automate Processes, and Develop Virtual Agents with Low Code Programming]( Site Owners from SQLServerCentral The book begins with the basics, explaining what low-code and no-code are and showing how to maximize efficiency in creating business applications for one's organization. Next, the book describes the Microsoft Power Platform's foundation, as well as all its components and services. Readers will begin with practical exercises right away, beginning with provisioning a Power Platform environment. Next, the book delves deeper into the Power Platform components such as Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Towards the end, the book explains practical exercises for each feature or service where you will gradually build a small business solution for a fictitious organization, Project Wizards, Inc.   Question of the Day Today's question (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor):  The PowerShell Array Removal I have this code in PowerShell: $numbers = @(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) I run this code. How many rows are returned? $numbers[4]=$null $numbers Think you know the answer? [Click here]( and find out if you are right.    Yesterday's Question of the Day (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor) Parameter Defaults I have a T-SQL stored procedure that looks like this: CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.AddTogether @a int , @b int = 1 AS BEGIN -- Declare a variable to store the result DECLARE @result INT; -- Add the two parameters and assign to the variable SET @result = @a + @b; -- Return the result SELECT @result; END; Where can I query the DMVs to get the parameter defaults? (null for @a, 1 for @b) Answer: Only from the stored procedure code in sys.modules Explanation: The default values for parameters are not stored anywhere in the DMVs. These are only in the object code definition, which is easily gotten from sys.sql_modules. Ref: - sys.sql_modules - [ - Information_schema.parameters - [ - sys.parameters - [ [Discuss this question and answer on the forums](    Database Pros Who Need Your Help Here's a few of the new posts today on the forums. 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