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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Blog Posts
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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Running SQL Server 2019 CTP in a Docker container
If you’ve been anywhere near social media this week you may have seen that Microsoft has announced SQL Server 2019.
I...
2018-10-04 (first published: 2018-09-25)
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Azure Data Relational Services
Today I’d like to talk about the Azure Relational Data Services Platform. This is an important foundational component for many...
2018-10-03
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Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
As of October 2018, Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is now generally available in the general purpose tier. Business Critical...
2018-10-03
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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