Oh, that's good, Conor. That would be interesting to know.

If you ran SSMS to connect, the Object Explorer might have taken the single connection and prevented this from working.

Perry is correct here. The log backups apply to the log backups. They're based on linking each other together, not with the full.

You do need a full backup to get...

Hard to know. I suspect you're too worried about this particular VM. It's likely (I think) and Azure thing, but perhaps you did something? Do you have completely scripted setup...

Charles Kincaid (12/3/2014)

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Chris we used a similar approach in Scout. Not only for system wide configurations but that gets extended down to specific users through roles.

Steve this will pull...

manie (12/4/2014)

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Thanks Steve, today I have thanks to you learned about PSR and I am definitely going to use it. Many times when you install software on a computer and...

Validation meaning that only the user/pwd combination is allowed to update?

I'd use a stored proc. Pass in the values. Then use an IF statement to see if a row is...

Wait stats is good. It's got to be I/O, unless there's some contention in work (CPU) on the slow server. However I can't guess what that would be.

Is all I/O...

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...