I spend many of my evenings researching and writing. Sometimes it’s writing new books. Sometimes it’s fixing and rewriting old books. Occasionally it’s a blog post like this one. Lately, it’s been a series of articles for SQL Magazine that are all about the new functionality available in Azure SQL Database v12 that was released in February for most data centers in Azure. It’s a whole new ball game. Check out my introductory article for v12 and the one on DMVs in Azure. I have more coming up on CLR in Azure, getting started, PowerShell, DBCC, T-SQL enhancements, Premium Tier and more. I’ll also get into “old” functionality like backup and restore. I’ll also explore new functionality, Azure is nothing if not dynamic, as becomes widely available.

I know a lot of you have been putting off exploring Azure, especially Azure SQL Database until it was “ready.” Guess what? It’s that time. Feel free to lean on me here, and over at SQL Mag, for questions, suggestions, thoughts, concerns, anything you have about Azure.

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