It's SQL Server. Every security setting you would use to ensure proper protection of the system is the same when dealing with web pages as when dealing with traditional client...

One scans everything. The other only looks at the root page. Of course the results will be different. Read the documentation for more details.

Without seeing the query and the execution plan, I have nothing to offer you except the link below to my books on query performance tuning and reading execution plans.

Don't mind wading in here even though I work for Redgate.

You'll want to focus on two things when you're evaluating the tool (from a tech perspective). Does it...

Well no. If you assign ownership to a login and that login goes away, it could cause issues. You can control the security so that people can only access a...

The dbo is generally considered to be the 'sa' of the database. Just as 'sa' can access the whole server, 'dbo' can access the whole database. Generally speaking, this is...

Choosing to compound keys is something you can do for performance because of how the keys are stored or because of how the tables are accessed. It's not necessarily bad...

If you have the right hardware, you can use the disk system to create snapshots of the system and it's fast. Check with your hardware vendor to see if they...

Just know that if you are backing up the transaction logs once an hour, you need to have enough disk space to hold an hours worth of transactions in the...

Kevins's answer is great (+1).

We did have a 3 second standard that all queries had to meet. However, as Kevin notes, that doesn't mean that if a query...

That's no good. You're basically talking merge replication here. It's a nightmare. You'll need to move to VMs and you'll have to completely redesign and rebuild your databases. Or, you...

Sorry I couldn't help. I just can't replicate the issue. Going to Microsoft is probably the best guess right now.

Read this overview article. The primary purpose is absolutely for failover and continuity. However:

Another key benefit is that the secondary databases are readable and can be...

If CONVERT doesn't work, then the data may not be of the type you think it is, or, it could be encrypted. Just guessing since we can't see what's going...

It's not data pools. That's a way of managing and paying for Azure SQL Database, not something like the Data Lake (completely, utterly different technology), which is distributed storage. Within...