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Advanced Performance Tuning for Microsoft SQL Server

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

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Adding Reports Users to SQL Monitor

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

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How to ACTUALLY save money in the cloud with SQL Server

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.

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2020-04-14

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QUOTENAME Behavior

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QUOTENAME Behavior

I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?

DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones'
SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')
What is returned?

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