Arun Sirpal

I am a Senior DBA with interest in MS technology especially SQL Server and Azure. During 2015 I was mentored by Paul Randal – Data Platform (SQL Server) MVP and during 2016 I completed my SQLskills Immersion training on Internals and Performance Tuning. When I am not working I am in the gym burning calories.

Saving Costs in Azure

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Nobody wants to waste money and being in the cloud is no exception! Luckily for us Azure is very efficient...

2018-02-27 (first published: 2018-02-15)

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How to setup Azure SQL Analytics

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

I am a big fan of this feature, I have written and spoken about it before ( https://blobeater.blog/2018/01/04/azure-sql-analytics/) but I did...

2018-02-26

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Azure SQL Database sa Connections?

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

I was using a query on one of my local SQL Servers where I wanted to know what logins were...

2018-02-07

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Deleting Azure SQL Database VNETs

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

This is quite a new feature (currently in preview) but an important one where we now have the ability to...

2018-02-07 (first published: 2018-01-29)

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The world of Automatic Tuning – SQL Server 2017

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Times are changing, 10 years ago I would never have thought that self-tuning databases would be available as a packaged...

2018-01-31 (first published: 2018-01-22)

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Azure Portal – Bad Request

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

I had a strange issue recently when trying to login to the Azure Portal. Quite simply I would enter my...

2018-01-16

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Azure SQL Database – Optimizing For Ad-hoc Workloads

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Today I found out that it is now possible to enable the setting optimize for ad-hoc workloads at the database...

2018-01-16 (first published: 2018-01-08)

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T-SQL Tuesday #98 Round Up

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Thank you to everyone that took the time to write and contribute, I enjoyed reading about how you conquered your...

2018-01-11

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Azure SQL Analytics

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Azure SQL Analytics is currently in preview mode, still it is very impressive. The goal of this feature is to...

2018-01-04

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T-SQL Tuesday #98 – Your Technical Challenges Conquered

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Welcome to the January 2018 edition of T-SQL Tuesday and I am your host BlobEater (Arun Sirpal).
If you do not...

2018-01-02

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Blogs

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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA

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Question of the Day

Changing the AG Listener

In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?

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