The recovery process can be extremely long, especially if there were long running transactions that it has to clean up. It's not unheard of for recover to take 2-3 or...

Generally, I use a combination of Active Directory groups (assuming Windows), and roles to define security.

As shown above, you can grant specific actions to a role. So, do that. Least...

So, I really love Policy Based Management. However, you need to know, Microsoft doesn't share my feelings. They have given that technology almost zero attention since it was originally released....

MSDN is the only way I know to have a renewable set of time in Azure for less cost. You can get a free trial, but it runs out and...

There may be a million details on this, but I'd start with two general concepts.

For emptying the table in order to reload it, TRUNCATE is your best bet. There are...

One thing I would strongly suggest for your career, don't get hung up on labels or titles. I was working as a database developer, and by that I mean, designing,...

For learning Synapse, also look up Azure Data Warehouse. That's the old name. So there's a lot more documentation there. I have a few blog posts. I used to teach...

Synapse is really cool, and worth your time. It also doesn't change that much at the core. At the edges though, hoo boy.

I've been working with Azure for over 10 years now (and I've added AWS in the last year, along with some other stuff). Fact is, it's hard. Take Azure SQL...

Availability Groups are generally considered to be the modern, safe, approach to high availability. At the very least, they get a lot more love & attention from Microsoft than any...

Yeah, what jeff said.

Ooh, yeah, PowerBI. Another vote for exploring that space as a possible solution. In fact, it might work for you and not require a lot of data movement. Maybe.

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Nope. It's almost two years old. It was a wildly successful release with very few bugs or issues. What it did have (nothing is perfect) has largely been addressed by...

The key to deadlocks is usually, but not always, that you have multiple different queries, not the same query, that are accessing the various tables in different orders. Meaning, one...