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Sometime having the right command in place opens up new doors to test things, like a failover for example. In this post we will take a look at a...
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Azure SQL Offers Manual Failover for PaaS Resources
Sometime having the right command in place opens up new doors to test things, like a failover for example. In this post we will take a look at a...
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