Understanding Zonal Redundancy in Azure SQL MI
Do you know what happens when you enable zonal redundancy for your SQL managed instance? Lets define it first (in the context of Business-Critical tier) – zonal redundancy is...
2025-07-16
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Blog Posts
A field note: AI Ambition vs. Operational Reality in 2025
Ivan Jelić, Group CEO at Joyful Craftsmen, reflects on what separates AI success from failure — and why most companies still underestimate what it really takes to turn strategy...
2025-07-15 (first published: 2025-07-14)
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Azure SQL Managed Instance: Boost Performance with Read-Scale Out
The Business Critical tier of Azure SQL Managed Instance offers the read-scale out feature enabling you to distribute read-only workloads such as reporting and analytics across built-in replicated secondary...
2025-07-15
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Free Cloud Environment Setup: A Beginner’s Guide
Cloud computing is essential for modern development, data storage, and scalable applications. Setting up your first cloud environment is a valuable skill, and you can begin without spending any...
2025-07-15
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SQL Server Best Practices
Many technologists dislike the term ‘Best Practice’ because what works for one environment might not work for another. I prefer the term ‘Industry Best Practice,’ prefaced with the caveat: ‘For...
2025-07-15
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The PASS Summit on Tour in the Netherlands
The PASS Summit goes on tour this year, with the final date the first few days of October in the Netherlands, Utrect to be exact. This is the first...
2025-07-15
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Copying an Azure SQL database between two Azure SQL Instances in two different subscriptions.
I recently had to copy an Azure SQL database (SQL db) from one subscription to an Azure SQL Server instance ... Continue reading
2025-07-14
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Generative AI vs Predictive AI | Real-World Examples & Tools You Should Know
What is Artificial Intelligence? Understanding Predictive vs. Generative AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming how we live, work, and interact with technology. From personalized recommendations to AI-generated art, the...
2025-07-14 (first published: 2025-06-23)
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IPv4 vs IPv6 Explained: Why IPv6 Still Hasn’t Replaced IPv4
The internet relies on IP (Internet Protocol) addresses to identify devices and route traffic. Two versions of IP exist today: IPv4 and IPv6. While IPv6 was introduced to overcome...
2025-07-14
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Monday Monitor Tips: Searching Permission Changes
During a demo of Redgate Monitor Enterprise to a customer, they asked about how to search for permission changes. This post examines how you can do that in Redgate...
2025-07-14 (first published: 2025-06-23)
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Blogs
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
Using Claude Code as a Database SRE Agent with the Everpure Fusion MCP Server
Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....
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SQL 2025 SSMS Nonsense
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PowerBI Question - Data Sources
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SQL Server Certificates
Which of these is not true for certificates used for SQL Server connections?
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