Cloud Era – Azure DBA
I get asked quite a bit about my thoughts on the impact Cloud computing has on a DBA role. Still in 2019, I get people say oh it’s the...
2019-10-28
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I get asked quite a bit about my thoughts on the impact Cloud computing has on a DBA role. Still in 2019, I get people say oh it’s the...
2019-10-28
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The Azure SQL Database service triggers an automatic failover after a failure is detected and the grace period has expired. What is the grace period? You can find this...
2019-10-23
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In the previous blog post I did a quick overview building a SQL VM (imaged) in Azure. It is now time to clarify some backup techniques because it can...
2019-10-17
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Let’s create a virtual machine in Azure that has an imaged copy of SQL Server on it. I want to do this because down the line I want to...
2019-10-09
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Let’s get straight to the point. From official documentation it states that “To secure your storage account, you should first configure a rule to deny access to traffic from...
2019-10-03
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An amazing blog post by Microsoft describing the idea of hot patching the database engine in Azure SQL Database to allow for minimal downtime when applying patches to SQL...
2019-09-25
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I am not sure when this became available but for Azure SQL Database 150 compatibility level is now available. Last time I created a database few weeks ago, only...
2019-09-18
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I want to do a quick summary post of the many different types of Azure SQL Database available and I am not talking about elastic pools, VMs etc, more...
2019-09-17
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A small but useful change has been made to the Azure Portal for Data Platform objects. Straightaway more meaningful information is exposed (and centralized), such as the service tier...
2019-09-17
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You should never stop learning, especially within the IT industry. There are many fields to move into nowadays within the data space, you still have your classic / cloud...
2019-09-12
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One thing I’ve always loved about the Scooby-Doo cartoon is that he never solved...
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Flexibility and Scale at the Database Level When SQL Server 2012 introduced Availability Groups...
Setting page visibility and the active page are often overlooked last steps when publishing...
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I am trying to check out elastic query between two test instances we have...
What happens if you run the following code in SQL Server 2022+?
declare @t1 table (id int); insert into @t1 (id) values (NULL), (1), (2), (3); select count(*) from @t1 where @t1.id is distinct from NULL;See possible answers