Quickstart: Connect SQL Server machines to Azure Arc
Get started with Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server to manage and govern your Windows and Linux SQL Server instances hosted across on-premises, edge, and multicloud environments.
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Cloud Computing
Best Practices for Google Cloud Security
Security is a concern whether it be on-premises or cloud-native. Google Cloud offers many products and services including SQL Server. What are some of the security controls that should be considered when using Google Cloud services?
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Creating an Azure SQL Database Using Azure Cloud Shell
This article will show how to use the Azure Cloud Shell and PowerShell to set up a new Azure SQL Database.
2023-07-07
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Scaling Up Monitoring
How do we design a monitoring system? The Amazon Prime team realized they didn't do a good job and changed their architecture.
2023-05-31
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Unlock the Power of Google Cloud SQL: Setting Up SQL Server and PostgreSQL Instances
Learn how to get started with Google Cloud MySQL and PostgreSQL databases by creating and configuring a database.
2023-05-26
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Using Azure Data Studio to Deploy a SQL Server VM on Azure
This article looks at deploying SQL Server on an Azure VM from Azure Data Studio.
2023-05-24
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Coming Out of the Cloud
Google announced a local version of their cloud databases that companies can install for developers.
2023-04-17
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Data Oriented Cloud Security Mechanisms
This article looks at security mechanisms in the cloud that can help protect your data, with specific examples in AWS.
2023-04-14
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The Struggles to Keep Up with Growing Systems
The growing complexity of environments can cause struggles for many IT professionals. However, we need to ensure we are not making things worse.
2023-03-03
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The Cost of the Cloud
Basecamp is leaving the cloud and Steve thinks it's a good decision. He also thinks the cloud can work very well for organizations.
2023-02-15
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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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