Scaling SQL Elastic Pools
There are a few ways to scale a SQL elastic pool. For this blog post I show you how to scale up. It can be done via the Azure…
Arun Sirpal
Tuning Azure SQL Elastic Pools
The below image is a beautiful picture, now it could be worse. The red line and the green line could peak at the same time and for a very…
SQL Server 2019 Suspend/Resume TDE
Yes, a really nice new shiny feature where we have the ability to suspend and resume the encryption scan for TDE – Transparent Data Encryption which is available in…
New Improved Azure Elastic Jobs
There is a new way to setup Azure elastic jobs to run against a target group of databases (targeting an elastic pool). I actually found the process quite messy…
Sizing your Azure SQL Database
Do you want to identify the correct Service Tier and Compute Size ( was once known as performance level) for your…
SQL Server – max server memory
Another re-post of a video from last year, this time showing you an in-built protection of setting max server memory…
SQL Server Deadlocks
A quick video clip showing how to create a deadlock in SQL Server and find information about it.
T-SQL Tuesday Sharing Cookies
It has been a while since I have participated in a T-SQL Tuesday but I felt the urge to do…
Azure SQL Data Warehouse Query Store
I personally think that query store has been a fantastic feature. I find myself using it for query performance troubleshooting…
Azure SQL Database and Trace Flags
You cannot enable trace flags (globally or by session) within Azure SQL Database but did you know that some global…
Blogs
Drop Database Objects Practically Risk-Free!
FIRST OF A TWO PART SERIES Some months ago, a fellow DBA came to...
Lengthen a Primary Key–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for...
Setup SQL Server Alert to get automatically notified of database blockings
By SQLPals
Suppose you want to or need to know anytime your SQL Server is experiencing...
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Protecting Data Between Services
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User Mapping Issues
I have a server that is version 12.0.6214.1 and here is my issue. I...
SQL browser and port number
We have several new servers running SQL 2014. Some servers are single instance servers...
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