Scaling your Azure SQL Managed Instance
No doubt there will be times where you need to scale up the actual instance in terms of vCores but also you may want to move across tiers (for...
2021-11-03 (first published: 2021-10-19)
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Arun Sirpal
Azure SQL Managed Instance CPU and RAM
With SQL Managed Instance you will need to consider your configuration requirements in terms of core count for the CPU and memory, which we all know that the MIN/MAX...
2021-11-01
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Restoring to Azure SQL Managed Instance – Part 2
So in the last blog we confirmed that we could move to SQL MI via some analysis, this is now time to actually do a backup and restore via...
2021-10-12
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Restore to SQL Managed Instance
Now that we have a Managed Instance built, the next question is how do we get data across? I will break this up into separate posts but the lesson...
2021-10-07
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Creating Azure SQL Managed Instance
First step login into the Azure portal and find SQL Managed Instance and click create. Yes you can find these tutorials all online but this is my thinking and...
2021-09-14
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Azure SQL Managed Instances
After many years working with different “flavours” of SQL server in Azure from its true PaaS form to SQL server in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) it’s time to look...
2021-08-12
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Azure Kubernetes Service – Handy Commands
Just some handy commands to use via kubectl. I found these useful for various reasons so hopefully you will too. Overview of our nodes. Pod information, remember from my...
2021-08-11
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Creating SQL Databases in AKS with PVC – Part 2
Last week I created the below with a dummy database and is something that I will do against SQL server but this time that has a persistent volume claim....
2021-08-09
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Creating SQL server Databases in AKS – Part 1
So, the point in the previous blog post was to leverage Persistent Volume Claims – PVC for data when using SQL server that it is needed in a stateful...
2021-08-03
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SQL Server and AKS
Following on from my last post after creating AKS, I now want to work with SQL server. First step, load up Azure cloud shell. Run the following commands Here...
2021-07-29
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