Preferred Node Policy-Setting on Traditional SQL Cluster
Preferred node setting facilitates instances on traditional cluster to be on the correct nodes which will lead to load-balancing of the resources.
2017-02-02
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The Process to Provision and Configure Azure SQL PaaS
This document describes the process to provision a SQL Azure server manually. While it is expected that most servers will be provisioned using automation, DBA's must have the skills and know the process to perform the same provisioning manually.
2015-08-24
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