Site-wide or region-wide disasters, while undoubtedly more impactful, happen considerably less frequently than downtime resulting from scheduled maintenance events or isolated hardware and software faults. This article provides an overview of the high availability features of Azure SQL Database that mitigate risks affecting services within an individual Azure datacenter, rather than an entire Azure region.
Default constraints can lead to assumptions about the values in a column. Combine a check constraint to avoid slip ups.
Steve talks about the disparate regulations we face for data privacy and protection.
In this tip we look at different examples of how to use the LIKE operator to get the correct results when strings contain wildcard characters. We will also look a function to make this easier to do.
This week Steve wonders if you have a process for setting up your new instances.
When Clippy suggests an index with only one key, look closer.
As running SQL Server on Linux becomes more common, DBAs must learn and become comfortable with the Linux OS. In this article, Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman demonstrates how to create a SQL Server instance running in Linux via a Docker container.
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What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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