Intro to AKS – Azure Kubernetes Service
What is Azure Kubernetes Service? Probably makes sense to tell you what Kubernetes is first. As Kubernetes states themselves “also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating...
2021-07-21
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All About SQL
Azure Container Instance and SQL server part 2
In the last post we built an image of SQL server 2019 Linux hosted in Azure Container Instance for fast access to SQL server. So, your next question is...
2021-07-08
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Azure Container Instance and SQL server
Being heavily involved with Microsoft Azure and database technologies it was only a matter of time that I would enter the world of Azure Container Instances (ACI). The same...
2021-07-05
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Azure SQL Managed Instance Versions
Just a really quick FYI for the readers. If you are using Managed Instances in Azure (If not, why not?) and you connect vis SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio)...
2021-06-23
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Azure SQL Database – Secondary Database and Tiers
On the theme of failover groups let’s do a quick recap on my environment. As shown below you can see the secondary database server called spacesql in West Europe....
2021-06-11
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Azure SQL Database – Cancel Scale Up Request
You have an Azure SQL Database, it could be a single database, it could be a primary database within a failover group. Regardless of the context, what would you...
2021-06-07
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Azure SQL Database Restore to different server
It is quite a common requirement to restore a copy of a database to the same Azure SQL server, you just issue a COPY OF command. What if you...
2021-06-03
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Snowflake in Azure
Being aligned to a global cloud like Microsoft Azure you have choices. Whether that is Azure SQL Database or Azure Database for MySQL for your relational database, it does not matter...
2021-04-12
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Error creating Azure SQL Database
A quick post today, quite simply, the error message is: “code”: “ConflictingDatabaseOperation”, “message”: “Operation on server x and database y is in progress. Please wait a few minutes before trying again.” What is going on here? Well for this example (and maybe yours) I created a database...
2021-04-16 (first published: 2021-04-09)
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Azure SQL – Saving Costs
When moving to a cloud model for your database stack no doubt you will be involved in a costing exercise. The good news is if you have Software Assurance...
2021-04-01
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Blogs
The Benefits of Teaching
By Brian Kelley
Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of...
Power BI, Excel, OneLake – Dreams Do Come True!
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I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive...
The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says
By Steve Jones
This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of...
Forums
Website Stability 2025/12/05
All week we've had issues with the site being up and down. There's been...
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I created a post (or tried) in the 2022 Admin forum. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?post_type=topic&p=4694880 But it's...
Question of the Day
Fabric Mirroring
In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?
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