Moving SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 clusters to #Azure for Extended Support
Earlier this year Microsoft announced extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 at no additional cost. However, the...
2018-10-05
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Blog Posts
Setting up Code Repository for Azure Data Factory v2
In this blog post I want to quick go through one of useful capabilities that Microsoft provided with version 2...
2018-10-05
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SOS to ADS
When Microsoft announced SQL Operations Studio last year, I wasn’t thrilled. The move to a VS Code shell was less...
2018-10-05 (first published: 2018-09-24)
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Walmart Chose Azure, How About You?
Another major corporation has announced their decision to move to Azure. Perhaps you’ve heard of them? Walmart—yes, Walmart and Microsoft...
2018-10-05
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Azure IP Advantage
In today’s Azure Every Day post, I’d like to talk about something a little different from our normal posts, and...
2018-10-04
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Cycle SQL Server Error Logs
I saw this again recently and see it too often in environments so wanted to take a second to remind...
2018-10-04 (first published: 2018-09-26)
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DevOps Terms – and Why They Matter to Database Specialists
In this 20 minute session, I define scrum, continuous deployment, test driven development, DevOps, and related concepts. I close with a quick discussion of why Database Administrators and Developers...
2018-10-04
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Giant Azure SQL Databases
Okay it is not really called Giant Azure SQL Database but its close. There is a new public preview vCore...
2018-10-04
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Quick PoSh SQL Provision Databases for New Developers
As part of some presentation work, I wanted to demonstrate some onboarding of new developers. To that end, as part...
2018-10-04
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Running a SQL Server Azure Container Instance in a virtual network
Up until now Azure Container Instances only had one option to allow us to connect. That was assigning a public...
2018-10-04
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Blogs
Local LLM Models at SQL Saturday Boston 2025
By Steve Jones
I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking,...
3 things you must do to start data quality management right
As a data & AI strategist who’s seen countless projects succeed and fail, I...
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server
By SQLPals
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server Not long ago,...
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Question of the Day
Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers