Azure SQL Managed Instance – Premium Tier
In case you are not aware Microsoft have now deployed a new change to SQL Managed Instances within the tier types. In certain regions ( shown later) you can...
2021-11-10
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All About SQL
Azure SQL Managed Instance CPU and RAM
With SQL Managed Instance you will need to consider your configuration requirements in terms of core count for the CPU and memory, which we all know that the MIN/MAX...
2021-11-01
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Scaling your Azure SQL Managed Instance
No doubt there will be times where you need to scale up the actual instance in terms of vCores but also you may want to move across tiers (for...
2021-11-03 (first published: 2021-10-19)
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Restoring to Azure SQL Managed Instance – Part 2
So in the last blog we confirmed that we could move to SQL MI via some analysis, this is now time to actually do a backup and restore via...
2021-10-12
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Restore to SQL Managed Instance
Now that we have a Managed Instance built, the next question is how do we get data across? I will break this up into separate posts but the lesson...
2021-10-07
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Creating Azure SQL Managed Instance
First step login into the Azure portal and find SQL Managed Instance and click create. Yes you can find these tutorials all online but this is my thinking and...
2021-09-14
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Azure SQL Managed Instances
After many years working with different “flavours” of SQL server in Azure from its true PaaS form to SQL server in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) it’s time to look...
2021-08-12
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Azure Kubernetes Service – Handy Commands
Just some handy commands to use via kubectl. I found these useful for various reasons so hopefully you will too. Overview of our nodes. Pod information, remember from my...
2021-08-11
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Creating SQL Databases in AKS with PVC – Part 2
Last week I created the below with a dummy database and is something that I will do against SQL server but this time that has a persistent volume claim....
2021-08-09
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Creating SQL server Databases in AKS – Part 1
So, the point in the previous blog post was to leverage Persistent Volume Claims – PVC for data when using SQL server that it is needed in a stateful...
2021-08-03
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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
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