Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to boost memory or I/O, you had to scale the whole instance, paying for extra CPU...
2026-01-12
1 reads
John Morehouse | Sqlrus.com
SQL Server 2025 Developer Edition – One size fits all
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025, bringing big improvements to its main database engine. This version focuses on AI features and better performance, aiming to meet the needs of...
2026-01-07 (first published: 2026-01-05)
158 reads
Merry Christmas
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading today, here it is nonetheless. I wish you and your family as many blessing as...
2025-12-25
7 reads
Stop Being Surprised by Your Azure Bill: Use Budgets
When organizations migrate workloads to Azure, the focus is usually on architecture, performance, and security. Cost management should be part of that conversation—but in practice, it’s often treated as...
2026-01-07 (first published: 2025-12-22)
219 reads
Streamlining Azure VM Moves Into Availability Zones
One of the more frustrating aspects about creating an Azure virtual machine is that if you do not place it into an availability zone at deployment time, you’ve traditionally...
2026-01-12 (first published: 2025-12-15)
102 reads
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two well established cloud services, Cloudflare and Azure Front Door, both had simultaneous outages that caused...
2025-12-22 (first published: 2025-12-08)
387 reads
Azure Networking: Designing for Change
Failing to plan is planning to fail. When organizations first begin implementing Azure networking, the focus is often on the immediate requirements: connectivity, security, and performance for your databases...
2025-09-22 (first published: 2025-09-03)
152 reads
Exploring the Next Gen General Purpose Tier in Azure SQL Managed Instance
In a recent video, I took a hands-on look at the Next Gen General Purpose service tier in Azure SQL Managed Instance—and it brings some exciting advancements to the...
2025-07-04 (first published: 2025-06-19)
228 reads
Implement a RAG Solution Using Azure SQL Database
AI and ChatGPT are all the rage these days. Seems like around every corner is another break-through in how we interact with data, regardless of if that data is...
2025-01-20 (first published: 2024-11-01)
851 reads
Getting Started with Azure SQL Database – A Beginners Guide
Last Updated on September 24, 2024 by John Morehouse Years ago, I saw the wave of the future and that wave was Cloud. The Cloud is not a fad...
2024-10-07 (first published: 2024-09-24)
379 reads
Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers