Backup and Restore Options for Azure SQL DB
I have decided to do a summary blog post on backup and recovery options for Azure SQL Database. If you...
2018-03-26
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All About SQL
SQL Vulnerability Assessment for Azure SQL Database
Back in September 2017 Microsoft announced a new security feature for Azure SQL Database called the SQL Vulnerability Assessment (VA)....
2018-03-22
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Azure SQL Database and Cost Threshold for Parallelism
We all know that the magic figure for cost threshold for parallelism is 5 by default, meaning if the estimated...
2018-03-26 (first published: 2018-03-16)
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Understanding DBCC FLUSHAUTHCACHE
This command only applies to Azure SQL Database, at a high level it empties the database authentication cache for logins...
2018-03-14
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Azure SQL Database – Allow Azure Services to Access Server
When you create a “logical” Azure SQL Server (I say logical because we are not really physically creating anything) there...
2018-03-09 (first published: 2018-03-01)
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How to setup Azure SQL Analytics
I am a big fan of this feature, I have written and spoken about it before ( https://blobeater.blog/2018/01/04/azure-sql-analytics/) but I did...
2018-02-26
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Saving Costs in Azure
Nobody wants to waste money and being in the cloud is no exception! Luckily for us Azure is very efficient...
2018-02-27 (first published: 2018-02-15)
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Azure SQL Database sa Connections?
I was using a query on one of my local SQL Servers where I wanted to know what logins were...
2018-02-07
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Deleting Azure SQL Database VNETs
This is quite a new feature (currently in preview) but an important one where we now have the ability to...
2018-02-07 (first published: 2018-01-29)
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The world of Automatic Tuning – SQL Server 2017
Times are changing, 10 years ago I would never have thought that self-tuning databases would be available as a packaged...
2018-01-31 (first published: 2018-01-22)
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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