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2020-04-16
No matter where you run your SQL Server® instances—on-premises, in a virtual machine, or in an Azure SQL Database Managed instance—the challenge is the same. How do you ensure you get optimum performance? Is the virtual machine impacting your database instance performance? Which queries cause the most blocking or deadlocking? Are you consuming more DTUs in your Azure SQL Database than you budgeted for?
2020-04-15
SQL Monitor 10.0.5 now supports a user role called "Reports user". A user added to this role, by an administrator, will be able to 'self-serve' SQL Monitor reports but won't be able to configure any other aspect of the monitoring service. Jeremiah Peschka explains how it works.
2020-04-14
While Microsoft provides a number of different deployment options for its Azure SQL Database offerings, one in particular warrants special attention from the standpoint of its infrastructure dependencies: Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.
2020-04-14
We have all heard migrating to the cloud can save you money and there are several ways moving your SQL Server workloads to the cloud can save your organization money. But, there are also missteps that can eat away at the savings, performance and even your availability creating instead an expensive, ineffective, difficult to manage cloud infrastructure.
2020-04-14
Learn how to perform data filtering in Oracle Linux using a database link to SQL Server
2020-04-13
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Grant Fritchey explains the core rules and features of Data Masker, and how you go about using them to mask columns, so that when the data is used outside the production system it could not identify an individual or reveal sensitive information.
2020-04-13
Microsoft introduced several features called Intelligent Query Processing for SQL Server in 2017 and 2019 that can improve performance without making changes to code. In this article, Greg Larsen demonstrates the feature Batch Mode on Rowstore.
2020-04-13
Why good use of QUOTENAME can easily prevent injection and unexpected behaviour in Dynamic SQL.
2020-04-10 (first published: 2018-08-13)
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2020-04-10
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
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