Well that is strange. I haven't built a lot of databases on Azure IaaS, but never seen that, especially not that consistently.

Have you checked IFI?

It's so hard to know this. It's entirely possible at DB create time you had a noisy neighbor. If you create another db on the slow VM, is it still...

John Hanrahan (12/3/2014)

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I believe Steve is referencing the old 'Canary in a Coal Mine'. Miners would test air quality using a bird. If it dies or becomes distressed...

Don't knock LinkedIn too much. It's networking, which is incredibly valuable if you need employment or want to move. Many of you have used networking to advance, and while you...

Gary Varga (12/3/2014)

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I am sure that many people will have experience of using feature flags, albeit possibly under a different name, for a long time. I have decades ago (as...

David.Poole (12/3/2014)

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I've been looking at a product called "Docker" which allows you to spin up a pre-configured machine. One of the guys in the DevOps team used it to...

Best is what you bring up. What comes to mind. That's...

Miles Neale (12/2/2014)

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I work at one of the government agencies that do optimize their work and tries in every way to get it right. We over the past decades...

GeorgeCopeland (12/2/2014)

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I know what you mean Steve, but I lose patience for business people who do not know what they want. You and I are technologists. We deliver solutions to...

This is the second or third set. I think they're a fun way to recognize some people in the community.

Hmmm, I'm in the consolation bracket. Perhaps we need a prize there this year 😀

Best of luck to everyone.

Thanks. It might take a few days, or even be early next week as I have some travel and our other editors are on holiday.

Ed Wagner (12/1/2014)

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Steve, I agree that Edit sounds like a poor idea for this site and it probably wouldn't be t very useful for this situation anyway. If you...

Work

Thanks for the update. No great hurry, but if you can't/don't finish, please post back.