Azure SQL Database SLA
Can you improve on the baseline (service level agreement) SLA of 99.99 % for Azure SQL Database? How can you get 99.995% as shown below, from official Microsoft documentation?...
2020-08-04
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All About SQL
SQL Server Stretch DB to Azure
Since SQL Server 2016 we could leverage Microsoft Azure to dynamically move “cold” portions of data away from on-premises storage for longer retention time periods. Whilst in theory being...
2020-07-27
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Azure SQL Database – Advanced Threat Detection
You should always seriously consider enabling this feature. This is part of the ADS suite – Advanced Data Security and I will show you how good this pro-active service...
2020-07-21
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Azure SQL Database and Backups
Question, can you take a built-in backup ( a backup that Microsoft takes as part of the service) and create a new database from it on a NEW server...
2020-07-14
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Azure Data Engineer Associate
You can read about all the new role based qualifications from Microsoft here – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/certification-overview.aspx Today I want to talk about the Azure Data Engineer one from my experience...
2020-07-06
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Azure SQL Database Networking
Have you realised the changes Microsoft have made to the firewall and networking section of Azure SQL Database? I found this quite stealthy and took me by surprise. I...
2020-06-24
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Azure SQL Database Migrating across Tiers
A quick post today about moving across database tiers. As you can see below I have a General Purpose Serverless Gen 5 1 vCore database (currently paused). Can I...
2020-06-17
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Azure Monitor and Azure SQL Database
This is all about enabling diagnostics telemetry for Azure SQL databases. For Azure SQL Database there are quite a few options to select from. Below shows the diagnostic settings...
2020-06-10
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Tips and Tricks Azure Databricks
It has been a while since I posted an entry for TSQL Tuesday, which, for today is hosted by Kenneth . The subject being a non SQL Server tip. For...
2020-06-09
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Lock your Azure SQL Database
So you have many databases in Azure, you accidentally deleted one which can happen and has happened to me because in my situation they had very similar naming conventions...
2020-06-03
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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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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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