Removing an App Service Plan in Azure
In my previous postI adhered to my O-OCD (Operational OCD) and standardised my App Service Plan name to fit in...
2017-05-18 (first published: 2017-05-07)
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Creating an Azure SQL Database via PowerShell
This post is about using the brilliance of PowerShell to script the creation of databases in Azure.
Background:
Apart from the obvious question...
2017-05-11 (first published: 2017-04-30)
1,363 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #90 — Bringing Continuous Delivery to a ‘brownfield’ database system
This blog post is part of T-SQL Tuesday #90 – Shipping Database Changes.
I have decided to write about a client’s SQL...
2017-05-09
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Creating an App Service in Azure that connects to an Azure SQL Database.
Using the methodology listed in my previous blog post on creating an Azure SQL Database we now have a Continuous Integration...
2017-04-30
628 reads
Removing an Azure SQL Database using PowerShell..
In this post we will remove some databases located in Azure.
This related to my last post where I am cleaning...
2017-04-30
1,640 reads
Moving Azure resources between subscriptions – especially VSTS Team Services Account
For the past 6 months I’ve been paying for my own Azure subscription. My work has a plan but for...
2017-04-24
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Installing a Visual Studio Team Services private build agent hosted On-Premises
This blog post is about a situation where I use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to build/deploy my DEMOs. Those...
2017-04-22
1,066 reads
Retrospective analysis of SQL Saturday South Island (#sqlsat614)
Now that SQL Saturday South Island (also known as #sqlsat614 on the Twitter) is done I thought it would be...
2017-04-22
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Resolution to “Connection Timeout Expired. [Pre-Login] initialization =18090; handshake=14281” error
This blog post is about a SQL Server connection issue that presents itself:
We were building an Availability Group (AG) at...
2017-04-20
430 reads
Can I tune the tempDB of an Azure based SQL Server database…
Yip. You can.
I was originally going to write this post about tuning tempDB in our Azure SQL database. Which would...
2017-04-02
386 reads
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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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