Quite a significant change has taken place within the Azure SQL Database space, more specifically the development of Azure SQL Database Serverless. Currently in preview mode this “compute” tier changes...
2019-05-14
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Before writing about pausing (and resuming) Azure SQL Data Warehouse (DW) it makes sense to discuss the architecture of this product. At a high level it involves a control...
2019-05-07
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A quick 2 minute upload (with sound, my voice) showing you how easy it is to create an Azure SQL Database using the Azure portal and then using SSMS...
2019-04-23
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There are a few ways to scale a SQL elastic pool. For this blog post I show you how to scale up. It can be done via the Azure...
2019-04-15
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The below image is a beautiful picture, now it could be worse. The red line and the green line could peak at the same time and for a very...
2019-04-11
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Yes, a really nice new shiny feature where we have the ability to suspend and resume the encryption scan for TDE – Transparent Data Encryption which is available in...
2019-04-02
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There is a new way to setup Azure elastic jobs to run against a target group of databases (targeting an elastic pool). I actually found the process quite messy...
2019-03-27
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Do you want to identify the correct Service Tier and Compute Size ( was once known as performance level) for your...
2019-03-20
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Another re-post of a video from last year, this time showing you an in-built protection of setting max server memory...
2019-03-14
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A quick video clip showing how to create a deadlock in SQL Server and find information about it.
2019-03-13
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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