A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

First of all, Azure SQL Database does not have the SQL Server Agent as a service. If you are running SQL Server in an Azure VM, or are using ... [Click on image for larger view.] ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 1 ... that the query doesn't match any known anti-patterns. SQL Server 2022 (and Azure SQL Database) quietly added an extended event to detect anti ...

you'll need your Azure SQL database server name. To get this, you can use the Get-AzureSqlDatabaseServer cmdlet. You can see here that I have a single server called adamazuresql that I will need to ...

While SQL Server looks costly compared to the likes of MySQL and Postgresql, for companies seeking a commercially supported database ... virtual machines given a one or three-year commitment ...

the popularity of Azure SQL Database has skyrocketed over the past year, while plain old Microsoft SQL Server has stayed relatively flat over the years while decreasing slightly, especially over the ...

Microsoft Azure SQL Database ... Windows Server licenses to run Windows virtual machines (VMs) on Azure for less money. For example, it saves you up to 30 percent on both the single database ...

While some database workloads have migrated to the cloud—and the next version of SQL Server has more tools and integration with Azure services for backup or analytics to help with that if it’s ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of the history of your data. Here's how to retrieve that historical data. In an earlier column, I showed how ...