Azure Redis Cache and Geo-replication
The concept of a geo-replicated partnership between a primary and secondary node is very similar to that of something you may have seen with Azure SQL DB, where the...
2022-05-06
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All About SQL
Azure Redis Cache – Persistent Data
I mentioned before that you could use the idea of data persistency to rebuild your data from total failure. There are two types. RDB and AOF. RDB – persists...
2022-04-28
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Azure Redis Cache – scaling
Let’s assume that you started off with the lower editions and capacity with Redis and your developers tell you to scale the Redis cluster. Well first to use a...
2022-04-25
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Tips for Azure Redis Cache
My learnings on Redis thus far which you may find useful: Location of Redis should be close to your app. Data structures within Redis, larger key value sizes lead...
2022-04-19
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Azure Redis Commands
Now that we have created our Redis Cache lets connect to it. You can use the most common tool redis cli.exe https://redis.io/download or as I am going to do,...
2022-04-14
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Building Azure Redis Cache
Let’s go through a Redis build process. It will be fun. Within Azure find Redis / search for it. Fill in the basics (location should be where your app...
2022-03-23
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Azure Redis Cache Intro
Redis Cache is a well know caching technology and you can run it in Azure as a fully managed service. A common requirement (the most basic one) is doing...
2022-03-21
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Microsoft Defender for open-source relational DB
If you navigate to the overview section of your MySQL server you will see a notification area, here you will find security section. It’s basically an area to provide...
2022-03-08
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MySQL server Query Store
The query store, sounds familiar? The idea of the black box sitting within the database server watching what is going on within the environment. This is available within MySQL,...
2022-03-03
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Azure DB for MySQL – Replication
No doubt there will be a need for you to split off your analytical queries from the main database for performance reasons. If you have been following me in...
2022-02-15
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Blogs
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...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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