Provisioning Azure SQL Database with Failover groups using Terraform
Get a basic introduction to Terraform by deploying and removing SQL Servers and a failover group to Azure.
2020-06-18
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Azure SQL database
2020-06-08
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2020-05-22
Configuring Database Alerts for Azure SQL Database
This article will help us to understand how to monitor Azure SQL Database and set up Azure metric alerts. Even though the database in Azure SQL Database is fully managed by Microsoft, we are still responsible for proper database access and performance. Azure does make it easy for us and it can alert on critical […]
2020-05-04
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2020-03-31
533 reads
Going Serverless with Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has a new virtual core offering of Azure SQL database called serverless and this offering optimizes the price performance tradeoff and simplifies performance management for databases with intermittent and unpredictable usage.
2020-01-14
Overview of Azure SQL Database Networking
Learn about the range of connectivity options available for Azure SQL Database deployments.
2019-12-24
Overview of Azure SQL Database Networking
Learn about the range of connectivity options available for Azure SQL Database deployments.
2019-12-20
Querying Master Database DMVs in Azure SQL Database
Learn how you can query information in the logical server's master database from an Azure SQL Database.
2019-12-12
5,978 reads
Moving Encrypted Data to Azure SQL Database
Learn how you can move encrypted data from on premises SQL Server to Azure SQL Database.
2019-11-26
2,489 reads
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The Distance Metric
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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