Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 2 - The Shard Map Manager Database
MAY 1, 2015
In my last post, I discussed some of the concepts around Sharding and how we...
2015-04-30
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Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 1 - What is Sharding?
MARCH 19, 2015
This week, Microsoft introduced an update to Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Preview. This update is good...
2015-03-19
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Dynamic Data Masking
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
Have you ever wanted to only show parts of a field to certain sets of users such as credit card numbers, telephone numbers or last...
2015-02-26
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Index Fragmentation in Azure SQL Database
FEBRUARY 4, 2015
Recently, I read the articles Stop Worrying About SQL Server Fragmentation and When Does Index Fragmentation Matter?, and that got me starting to...
2015-02-03
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Monitoring Geo-Replication in SQL Azure using DMV'sDECEMBER 26, 2014Azure SQL Database comes with a host of disaster recovery options. The...
2014-12-25
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Monitoring Geo-Replication in SQL Azure using DMV's
DECEMBER 26, 2014
Azure SQL Database comes with a host of disaster recovery options. The most robust of these options involves replicating the database...
2014-12-25
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Runbooks in SQL Azure
DECEMBER 2, 2014
SQL Azure Runbooks promise to be your “SQL Server Agent in the cloud”. They enable you to use PowerShell Scripts inside of SQL Azure...
2014-12-10
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Runbooks in SQL AzureDECEMBER 2, 2014SQL Azure Runbooks promise to be your “SQL Server Agent in the cloud”. They enable...
2014-12-10
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SQL Azure Point-in-Time RestoreOCTOBER 26, 2014As a strategic direction, many companies have decided to start moving their SQL Server databases...
2014-12-06
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SQL Azure Point-in-Time Restore
OCTOBER 26, 2014
As a strategic direction, many companies have decided to start moving their SQL Server databases into the cloud using SQL Azure. This change in...
2014-12-06
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By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...