Simplest, cheapest, backup and restore.
Complex and cheap, replication, but likely to be an ongoing source of headaches
If you have the capability, availability groups work well.

SAN snapshots...

I agree with Grant. Education is important, but when users are causing issues, I also do let my manager know. Not to complain, but to document that I'm trying to...

It does take CPU, which is bundled into your DTU limit cost. You don't incur more cost for worse queries, unlike storing more data. However, more DTUs/query does impact performance,...

I'd look at dba tools, it was built for this and has lots of options to help.

Easiest to understand in a web scenario. Right now, I could use the Azure Portal to provision a web server from some template. That would include the files for the...

I'm at the other end of the scale, waking up too early and ready to go.

If there's something that you have a question about, please feel free to...

I am amazed Ben got those stats after I saw the INT count and relatively little from Brown. Never thought Hill would do that well,but maybe I should just stick...

Go Steelers, err, Broncos, err, whoever is in lineup.

You've tested something different than the question.

Hung up at work, so no live draft for me. I ended up with a B grade and apparently I need to somewhat root for the Steelers this year.

Indeed they are. Corrected and thanks.

I saw something interesting like this with one of Brent's demos.

Parameter from app is nvarchar()

Table is

create table Sometable (
somepk int
, someval varchar