New Azure storage account type
In Azure, there previously has been only one kind of storage account, which is now called a “General Purpose” storage...
2016-05-04
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James Serra's Blog
SQL Server 2016 available June 1st!
Woo hoo! Microsoft has announced that SQL Server 2016 will be generally available on June 1st. On that date all four...
2016-05-02
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Big Data architectures
Over the last few years I have been involved in reviewing the architectures of various companies that are building or have...
2016-05-12 (first published: 2016-04-29)
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Azure SQL Database pricing
Pricing Azure SQL database is difficult because various database service tier options such as database transaction units (DTU’s), max database size,...
2016-04-22
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU5 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU5),...
2016-04-14
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Scaling Azure VM’s
There are so many benefits to the cloud, but one of the major features is the ease of use in...
2016-04-05
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My latest presentations
I frequently present at user groups, and always try to create a brand new presentation to keep things interesting. We...
2016-03-29
910 reads
Data loading into Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) is a new platform-as-a service (PaaS) that distributes workloads across multiple compute resources, called massively parallel processing (MPP)....
2016-03-23
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Microsoft Azure Government
I’m sure you are aware of Microsoft Azure, but are you aware there is special version of Azure for U.S....
2016-03-15
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SQL Server on Linux!
Looks outside: pigs are flying!
In an announcement yesterday, SQL Server will be made available on Linux. The private preview of...
2016-03-08
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Blogs
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
4 CPE Opportunity (Virtual) for Charity
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is...
Forums
Deadlock graph anomaly
I've come across what appears to be a strange deadlock anomaly. As seen in...
Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale Level 6: Backup and Restore Internals
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale...
The Challenge of AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Challenge of AI, which...
Question of the Day
Deprecated Feature Tracking
From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?
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