If you're just talking VMs on Azure, yeah. Same behaviors as VMs anywhere else. If you're talking Managed Instance or Azure SQL Database, different rules. Very.

Aggregation versus sorting. A lot less work to sort than aggregate. Also, a join operation versus none.

Also, you can get much more accurate measures if you use Extended Events.

Yeah, I'm a little surprised they don't have either Query Store or Extended Events working on it. Seems like a necessity. The DMVs are nice, but cache dependent, so it's...

3rd party solution (my employer), Redgate Software makes a tool, SQL Compare, that can actually look directly at the backup file and compare that to a database to find differences....

Source control your database code. All of it.

If you can't guarantee, 100%, that most (read that as 98% or more) of the queries will be able to filter on the partitioning column(s), then whatever you do, don't...

You want to look up the WITH MOVE syntax. You can restore to a new database name, but only if you also move the storage location for the database.

First things first, just so you know, despite the name, Profiler in Azure Data Studio isn't Profiler. It's a wrapper around Extended Events. You can expand and extend what gets...

And here's another area of trust that worries me.  I regularly reconcile all my financial accounts monthly.  Why?  Because they are all on computer systems that can cause errors. ...

What is it with double posts on this site? When I submitted my first post I got a 403 error and then when I refreshed the page I didn't...

Truly appreciate everyone's feedback on this one. I find it a fascinating topic. I like the various approaches we all take, based on a combination of our own experiences and...

Grant, and anyone else who may not be aware, the USPS offers Informed Delivery on their web site which provides pictures of most mail being delivered.  It's a simple...

The thing is, since there is no real nested transaction, you can't "deescelate". Just as the outer commit will always being the point at which the commit happens, the outer...

The output will tell you if it has eliminated pages and how many were eliminated. It won't tell you specifically where they are or what was on them.. This is...

The Query Store information should survive the upgrade.