The recommended way to backup and restore databases in Managed Instance is using built-in automatic backups and cross-instance point-in-time restore. However, if you need to use the manual backups, Jovan Popvic explains the procedure that you would need to follow.
2019-05-31
Jovan Popovic has some pieces of advice for backin...
2019-05-24
Jovan Popovic takes us through determining whether we have enough memory on an Azure SQL Managed Instance: Managed Instance has memory that is proportional to the number of cores....
2019-05-14
Danimir Ljepava announces public endpoints for Azure SQL Managed Instances: Public endpoint, ability to connect to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance from Internet, without VPN has reached global availability...
2019-04-15
Microsoft currently offers two built-in methods of running production SQL Server databases in Azure. The first relies on the ability of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Azure virtual machines to host a variety of on-premises workloads, including SQL Server instances. The second one leverages Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)-based Azure SQL Database. With the introduction of the Azure SQL Managed Instance service, you have a third option, which combines the benefits of its two predecessors.
2018-05-01
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One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
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