This article describes how to use the new wizards in SQL Server Management studio to get access to Windows Azure and then create and configure your VM.
2014-01-08
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In this article, Marcin Policht looks at migrating existing SQL Server databases to Windows Azure, starting with identifying obstacles associated with such migrations.
2013-10-22
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SQL Server databases move around as an organisation’s data grows, applications are enhanced or new versions of the database software are released. If not anything else, servers become old and unreliable and databases eventually need to find a new home. Here's what to do when migrating your databases.
2013-06-12
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Continuing from Part 1 , our Migration Checklist continues: Step 5: Update statistics It is always a good idea to update the statistics of the database that you have just installed or migrated
2011-07-25
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It is a fact of life: SQL Server databases change homes. They move from one instance to another, from one version to the next, from old servers to new ones. They move around as an organisation’s data grows, applications are enhanced or new versions of the database software are released.
2011-07-18
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2010-08-27 (first published: 2010-08-25)
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We soon learn, in SQL Server, that heaps are a bad thing, without necessarily understanding how or why. Jonathan Lewis is an Oracle expert who doesn't like to take such strictures for granted, especially when they don't apply to Oracle. Jonathan discovers much about how SQL Server places data, and concludes from his experiments that heaps perform badly in SQL Server because you cannot specify a fill factor for them.
2010-07-23
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The final part of the series will examine full text catalogs and indexing, database collation, service broker considerations, encryption and high availability.
2009-10-02
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Part 2 of the database migration series examines setting database options, mapping database users to logins, recovery models, backups, and changing the code associated with configurations.
2009-09-22
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Migrating a database is often a task fraught with complications, this series examines the key issues in a simple checklist.
2009-09-16
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