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.

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Azure SQL Database DMVs

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

The following DMVs shown within this blog post are some of the more common ones that I am finding really...

2016-10-18

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Microsoft Certifications

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

Every now and again I would navigate to Microsoft’s certification page and see what / if any changes have taken place...

2016-10-13

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SSMS 2016& Azure SQL DBs

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

When using the latest version of SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) there is a small but handy little feature that...

2016-10-11 (first published: 2016-09-27)

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Azure SQL Database – TDE

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

I work in the financial space so you can imagine that security is quite high on the agenda. TDE (Transparent...

2016-10-10

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SQL Performance Dashboards – update

by Arun Sirpal

All About SQL

SQL Server Performance Dashboards – update The first article that I ever wrote (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server/127992/) was last year where I wanted to...

2016-10-07

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