Full Architecture for SQL Backup to Blob Storage in Cloud

One of the tasks that any DBA should know How to take backup to URL or restore a backup from URL and this’s the easiest part very simple steps...

Daily Coping 14 Jul 2020

I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Disappearing Data Files

This article has just shared the power of XEvents and yet another use in helping to audit the database environment for changes. Not only do we have this powerful...

The Ironic DBA—My First Year as a DBA [Part 3]

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party for the SQL Server community. It is the brainchild of Adam Machanic (b|t) and this month’s edition is hosted by Kerry Tyler...

Azure SQL Database and Backups

Question, can you take a built-in backup ( a backup that Microsoft takes as part of the service) and create a new database from it on a NEW server...

Congratulations to Pragmatic Works – Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalists, Again

Pragmatic Works has done it again. Microsoft has recognized us for our work this year with two finalist awards — Power BI and PowerApps and Power Automate. This recognizes...

Recovery Unit InitPersistentVersionStore Failed

As usual, I was working on my weekend on-call and I have had an alert. Our monitoring system has reported a message printed from the error log. I was...

Laptop to Build Hyper-V Test Lab - Part 1

Laptop to Build Hyper-V Test Lab - Part 1

Laptop to Build Hyper-V Test Lab - Part 1

This is the first Video of the series, will show you how to configure Hyper-V and then create several VM’s to configure AlwaysOn