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In a previous post, I discussed the public preview of Azure SQL Database Serverless. This is a newer product released from Microsoft for the Azure ecosystem. Moving to this new product is really easy to do and I thought that I’d show you how. Moving the Database From the screen […]
Microsoft continues to expand the Azure ecosystem rapidly. One of the most recent delivered improvements was Azure SQL Database Serverless option. The new serverless model, which is currently in public preview, provides a compute tier for a single database that scales dynamically with the workload. This new compute tier […]
When dealing with cloud technology there is a phrase that everybody should remember: Physics Always Wins. There isn’t any way to get around the speed of light (2.98 x 108 m/s) other than getting as close to your cloud resources as possible. I believe that Microsoft does a great job […]
I have a client that resides in the Azure data platform arena, focusing mainly on Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Azure SQL DB. They have a decent landscape of Azure resources and currently utilize failover groups within SQL DB to facilitate high availability. Under the covers, failover groups are […]
Let’s be honest here, data security is really important to me. Some people probably think that I go to extremes to ensure that my data as well as my customers data is secured. With that, sometime ago, I wrote a blog post on utilizing a VPN server that I built […]
In a previous post, I described how you can use Azure storage to store SQL Server database backup files. This flexible option offers the ability to get your critical backups off site and in certain regions, they could be configured to be automatically redundant to a secondary region. Having backups […]
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about boot diagnostics and how they can help you troubleshoot issues when virtual machines won’t start. But what if you selected to disabled boot diagnostics when the virtual machine was created? Can you go back and retro-actively add them back? Yes, Virginia, yes […]
If you have ever rebooted a virtual machine and feel like you are in the dark to it’s current state, you aren’t alone. Thankfully, Azure provides a number of tools to aid in your experience in the cloud when it comes to “reboot darkness”. Boot diagnostics allows you to see […]