How to get certified (as MCP)

This year I did lot of conference sessions, Azure workshops and MOCs. When doing introduction, I have one PowerPoint slide about my competencies and my MS certificates (MCP) are shown here. And I have a lot of those… On breaks or after sessions, I get lot of question about how to get certified, what to use…

Schedule MS SQL database backup to Azure storage

As I promised in one of previous posts, I’ll write about scheduling MS SQL database to Azure Storage Account. We’ll start with creating new Storage Account. Go to Azure Portal and click ‘New’. Select ‘Storage’ and ‘Storage account’. Enter parameters for your Storage account. Enter name, deployment model must be ‘Classic'(as ARM will not be visible…