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Have you ever wanted to only show parts of a field to certain sets of users...

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Have you ever wanted to only show parts of a field to certain sets of users such as credit card numbers, telephone numbers or last...

Index Fragmentation in Azure SQL Database

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Recently, I read the articles Stop Worrying About SQL Server Fragmentationand When Does...

Index Fragmentation in Azure SQL Database

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Recently, I read the articles Stop Worrying About SQL Server Fragmentation and When Does Index Fragmentation Matter?, and that got me starting to...

Monitoring Geo-Replication in SQL Azure using DMV's

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Azure SQL Database comes with a host of disaster recovery options. The most robust of these options involves replicating the database...

Runbooks in SQL Azure

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SQL Azure Runbooks promise to be your “SQL Server Agent in the cloud”. They enable you to use PowerShell Scripts inside of SQL Azure...

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