Microsoft Azure Stack in Preview!
Microsoft made available the first technical preview of its new Microsoft Azure Stack offering today. It was announced last week. Azure...
2016-02-09 (first published: 2016-02-01)
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James Serra's Blog
Migrate from on-prem SQL server to Azure SQL Database
This blog describes the various approaches you can use to migrate an on-premises SQL Server database to Azure SQL Database.
In...
2016-01-27
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HA/DR for Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service in the cloud. It uses a special version of Microsoft SQL Server as...
2016-01-20
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Why use a data lake?
Previously I covered what a data lake is (including the Azure Data Lake and enhancements), and now I wanted to touch...
2015-12-29
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Storage options on Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services...
2015-12-01
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Redundancy Options in Azure Blob Storage
So you have data in Azure Blob Storage and are concerned about reliability. Have no fear! There are four replication options...
2015-11-10 (first published: 2015-11-05)
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Copying data from Azure Blob Storage
In a previous blog I talked about copying on-prem data to Azure Blob Storage (Getting data into Azure Blob Storage). ...
2015-10-15
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Azure Data Lake enhancements
I first blogged about Microsoft’s new product, the Azure Data Lake, a few months back (here). There are already enhancements, as...
2015-09-29
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Getting data into Azure Blob Storage
If you have on-prem data and want to copy it to Azure Blob Storage in the cloud, what are all...
2015-09-17
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Relational databases vs Non-relational databases
I see a lot of confusion about the place and purpose of the many new database solutions (“NoSQL databases”) compared...
2015-08-27
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Lots of Postgres Options
By Steve Jones
Redgate Monitor is growing to include more than just Microsoft SQL Server monitoring. We...
Advice I Like: Experience and Aptitude
By Steve Jones
Experience is overrated. Most breakthrough accomplishments were done by people doing them for the...
Plan Time for Self-Development
By Brian Kelley
As you begin the new year, if you don't already have time set aside...
Forums
Issues with SQL Server 2022 Server
Hello, At my work place I recently migrated our test environment to SQL Server...
Remote query is taking 99% cost of local sp execution
So we have local sp in which remote table is udpated.this remote query part...
Remote query is taking 99% cost of local sp execution
So we have local sp in which remote table is udpated.this remote query part...
Question of the Day
Data API Builder APIs
What formats of API endpoints can the Data API Builder present to clients when exposing the database?
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