Using Azure SQL Data Sync to Replicate Data
Learn how to setup and use Azure SQL Data Sync to synchronize and replicate data from various locations including Azure SQL Database, cloud and on-premises databases.
2021-03-02
Azure
Azure Blob Storage Data Upload with SSIS
In this article we look at how to upload and download files from Azure Storage using SQL Server Integration Services.
2021-01-15
Azure SQL Database TDE Customer Managed Keys
In this tip we will go through the steps for setting up customer managed keys or Bring your own key (BYOK) to be used for transparent data encryption for an Azure SQL Database.
2020-12-08
Visualizing Azure Resource Metrics Data in Power BI
Learn the five steps to perform Azure resource reporting with Power BI in order to embed the reports in dashboards for stakeholders.
2020-11-23
What is Oracle ASM to Azure IaaS?
Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman explains Oracle Automatic Storage Management and why it’s impossible to do a comparison to Azure IaaS.
2020-10-14
Auto Scaling Azure SQL DB using Automation runbooks
Learn how to auto scale an Azure SQL Database with Azure runbooks and using an existing runbook from the runbooks gallery.
2020-10-09
Azure Database for MySQL
In this article we take a look at setting up and configuring MySQL to run on Azure along with some performance metrics for this database platform running on Azure.
2020-10-02
Running Container Workloads in Microsoft Azure
Containers are being used by more and more organizations to automate build pipelines in their CICD processes. In this article, Mahendran Purushothaman shows how to automate the creation of Docker containers and a Kubernetes cluster in Azure.
2020-09-29
Managing Azure Blueprints with PowerShell
Learn about the Azure PowerShell cmdlet for Azure Blueprints in Azure Resource Manager framework and how to export, import, publish, and assign Azure Blueprints with PowerShell cmdlets.
2020-09-23
Using Azure Blueprints to deploy Azure SQL Server and Database with Key Vault Secrets
In this article we look at two methods of using Azure Blueprints to deploy Azure SQL Server and Database with Key Vault Secrets.
2020-09-08
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers