Azure DB for MySQL – server parameters
If you have used MySQL before you will know about the system server variables, you know such commands as SHOW VARIABLES; You can access most of them via the...
2022-02-10
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Arun Sirpal
Azure DB for MySQL – Storage v1 vs v2
When it comes to MySQL and storage you will normally have to decide on 3 options: basic, general purpose v1 or v2. Basic does support up to 1TB and...
2022-02-07
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Connecting to Single Server MySQL
We have already created the server now it’s time to connect to it. What you will need – connection string details, correct networking setup and a tool like MySQL...
2022-02-03
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Creating Azure DB for MySQL – Single Server
Enough of the theory and text lets use the Azure Portal and create MySQL Single server. Navigate to the Azure Portal, find Azure Database for MySQL servers: Click create...
2022-01-31
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Azure DB for MySQL – Single server vs Flexible
When you start the build process for MySQL you will be shown the below screen, the question is what option would you select? It really does depend; I don’t...
2022-01-19
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Azure Database for MySQL
SQL Server is not the only database you build and deploy into Azure. Another very popular option is MySQL. Going back many years, this was actually my first database...
2022-01-11
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SQL Managed Instances – Failing Over
This is our current setup shown below. There is not much to failing over with Managed Instances, from experience it is similar to that of Azure SQL Database. Let’s...
2021-12-17 (first published: 2021-12-07)
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SQL Managed Instances – Cross Instance?
There is a setting / feature in Managed Instance worth talking about, it is called SQL Trust Groups. What is this? At a basic level it’s a way to...
2021-12-15
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SQL Managed Instance – Failover Groups Quick Tips
Lets summarise some important learnings about SQL MI and failover groups. when you add a database to a failover group the secondary database has the same edition / compute...
2021-12-09
111 reads
Failover Groups for Managed Instances
If you have been following me for a while you will know that I really like the Fail over groups within Azure SQL DB and it is no different...
2021-11-22
8 reads
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Flying Halfway Around the World to Australia
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Question of the Day
Initial Config of tempdb
What are the initial config sizes for the tempdb primary data files, secondary data files, and log files in SQL Server 2022?
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