Azure SQL Managed Instance – Maintenance Windows
A post close to my heart, Azure SQL Managed Instance, I have blogged about this many times but I feel I should be sharing more details about this. One...
2022-05-12
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Arun Sirpal
Azure Redis Cache and Geo-replication
The concept of a geo-replicated partnership between a primary and secondary node is very similar to that of something you may have seen with Azure SQL DB, where the...
2022-05-06
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Azure Redis Cache – Persistent Data
I mentioned before that you could use the idea of data persistency to rebuild your data from total failure. There are two types. RDB and AOF. RDB – persists...
2022-04-28
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Azure Redis Cache – scaling
Let’s assume that you started off with the lower editions and capacity with Redis and your developers tell you to scale the Redis cluster. Well first to use a...
2022-04-25
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Tips for Azure Redis Cache
My learnings on Redis thus far which you may find useful: Location of Redis should be close to your app. Data structures within Redis, larger key value sizes lead...
2022-04-19
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Azure Redis Commands
Now that we have created our Redis Cache lets connect to it. You can use the most common tool redis cli.exe https://redis.io/download or as I am going to do,...
2022-04-14
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Building Azure Redis Cache
Let’s go through a Redis build process. It will be fun. Within Azure find Redis / search for it. Fill in the basics (location should be where your app...
2022-03-23
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Azure Redis Cache Intro
Redis Cache is a well know caching technology and you can run it in Azure as a fully managed service. A common requirement (the most basic one) is doing...
2022-03-21
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Microsoft Defender for open-source relational DB
If you navigate to the overview section of your MySQL server you will see a notification area, here you will find security section. It’s basically an area to provide...
2022-03-08
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MySQL server Query Store
The query store, sounds familiar? The idea of the black box sitting within the database server watching what is going on within the environment. This is available within MySQL,...
2022-03-03
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Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
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SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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