If you manage databases on Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance, you’ll want to pay attention to this one. Microsoft has announced two major TLS changes that directly impact the security and connectivity of your cloud databases: The definitive…
Digital sovereignty with Azure Local, Microsoft 365, and AI
Last week we attended the Microsoft AI Tour Madrid, where Satya Nadella put a key topic for regulated organizations on the table: digital sovereignty. For those who want the official context, this Microsoft summary explains it very clearly: Artificial intelligence and…
New features in SQL Server 2025
Since SQL Server 2025 was released last November, we took some time before starting this series, but it was about time. This version is packed with new features that deserve a proper review before putting them into production. In this first…
Copilot in Azure SQL Database. The end of DBAs?
Welcome to a new post in the Aleson ITC blog. If you are here is because you know that AI has become a key player in the future of all companies, and if yours uses SQL Server will also be able…
Improve Managed Instance performance even more
In the company we have been working with Azure SQL Database Managed Instance for more than 1 year and in general terms we can say that we are very happy with the technology, because as a PaaS tool we no longer…
☁ Discovering Instance Pools, a new Azure SQL Database resource
For more than a year we have been working and migrating clients to Managed Instance in Azure, that’s why when last September 4, 2019 Microsoft made the news of a new option for this, called Instance Pools, we wrote it to the list ”…
📧 Monitor and Report unauthorized access to Personal Data – GDPR Series (5/5)
We finished with the GDPR series, our personal data will be more secure than ever, but it is not enough to do the work once, this work has to be constant and that is why in this last entry we will…
🔒 Protecting data at Rest, in Use and in Transit – GDPR Series (4/5)
In the previous entry of the series we learned to manage the access and use of data, but to be completely safe, it is not enough to just secure the data in use, we also have to protect it at rest and…
🚦 Managing access and use of data with SQL Server – GDPR Series (3/5)
Once we have discovered and classified our data, we enter the second step on our way to comply with the GDPR, now it is the turn to manage access to the data and control the use that is made of them. Why is this important…
🔍 Discovering and classifying personal data with SQL Server – GDPR Series (2/5)
The first step to comply with the GDPR is to evaluate if this applies to your organization and if so, what data should be adjusted to meet it. To perform this analysis, it is necessary to know what data you have…