Intro to AKS – Azure Kubernetes Service
What is Azure Kubernetes Service? Probably makes sense to tell you what Kubernetes is first. As Kubernetes states themselves “also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating...
2021-07-21
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Arun Sirpal
Azure Container Instance and SQL server part 2
In the last post we built an image of SQL server 2019 Linux hosted in Azure Container Instance for fast access to SQL server. So, your next question is...
2021-07-08
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Azure Container Instance and SQL server
Being heavily involved with Microsoft Azure and database technologies it was only a matter of time that I would enter the world of Azure Container Instances (ACI). The same...
2021-07-05
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Azure SQL Managed Instance Versions
Just a really quick FYI for the readers. If you are using Managed Instances in Azure (If not, why not?) and you connect vis SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio)...
2021-06-23
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Azure SQL Database – Secondary Database and Tiers
On the theme of failover groups let’s do a quick recap on my environment. As shown below you can see the secondary database server called spacesql in West Europe....
2021-06-11
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Azure SQL Database – Cancel Scale Up Request
You have an Azure SQL Database, it could be a single database, it could be a primary database within a failover group. Regardless of the context, what would you...
2021-06-07
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Azure SQL Database Restore to different server
It is quite a common requirement to restore a copy of a database to the same Azure SQL server, you just issue a COPY OF command. What if you...
2021-06-03
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Error creating Azure SQL Database
A quick post today, quite simply, the error message is: “code”: “ConflictingDatabaseOperation”, “message”: “Operation on server x and database y is in progress. Please wait a few minutes before trying again.” What is going on here? Well for this example (and maybe yours) I created a database...
2021-04-16 (first published: 2021-04-09)
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Snowflake in Azure
Being aligned to a global cloud like Microsoft Azure you have choices. Whether that is Azure SQL Database or Azure Database for MySQL for your relational database, it does not matter...
2021-04-12
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Azure SQL – Saving Costs
When moving to a cloud model for your database stack no doubt you will be involved in a costing exercise. The good news is if you have Software Assurance...
2021-04-01
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Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
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Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
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Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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