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Azure Managed Instance Changing DNS prefix
Azure Managed Instances are provisioned by default with a yourname.uniqueid.databases.windows.net DNS fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Even on your private virtual network you will still have to use this FQDN. If you want your Azure Managed Instance to connect with … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, SQLServerPedia Syndication
Workload Replay for Azure SQL Database and Amazon RDS
Want to make sure you don’t have errors, validate performance, and save money while making changes with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server RDS in Amazon AWS? In this video, you will learn how to use the Data … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, SQLServerPedia Syndication
Tagged aws, azure, Migration, performance tuning, replay
Import Databases to Azure SQL Database
I recently spoke at a conference and was asked what is the easiest way to import databases to Azure SQL Database. Therefore, I wanted to share how I do this with DBATools.io. You can use the same code to just … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, backup/restore, SQLServerPedia Syndication, syndication
Tagged Azure SQL Database, dbatools, migrate, powershell
Allow users to start/stop Azure VMs
Today I wanted to cover how you can grant the least privilege required to stop, start or restart an Azure VM. This is also a fun great example of how you can create custom Azure Security Roles too. That’s right, … Continue reading
Azure Backup for SQL Server VMs
I am not sure why but sometimes I am glutting for punishment. Maybe its why I try every backup and restore solution I can get my hands on? While Microsoft has done an amazing job at building the best relational … Continue reading
Talking about Migrating to Azure SQL Database at #MSIgnite this week
This week I will have two talks on migrating existing database to Azure SQL Databases at Microsoft Ignite. If you are there and curious about migrating your existing databases we would love to talk with you. If you are attending … Continue reading
Benchmark Azure SQL Database Wait Stats
Today, I want to focus on how we can monitor wait statistics in an Azure SQL Database. In the past, I blogged about how you should benchmark wait stats with the box product. This process will give you misleading data in … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, SQLServerPedia Syndication
Tagged Azure SQL Database, DMV, performance tuning
Calculating DTU in Azure SQL Database
A few months ago, I posted a question over on ask.sqlservercentral.com. In a nutshell, it was how do you measure DTU? How could you pull the data shown in the Azure Portal graphs with T-SQL? No one answered, so this … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, SQLServerPedia Syndication
Tagged Azure SQL Database, DTU, performance tuning, Query Store
Azure SQL Database Live Migrations
Unfortunately, with Azure SQL Database you are not able to take an existing SQL Server Backup and restore it on an Azure SQL Database server. We are talking about Microsoft’s database as a service (DaaS) offering, not Azure VMs also … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, SQLServerPedia Syndication
Tagged amazon RDS, Azure SQL Database, Cloud, Migration, Transactional Replication
Automating Azure Resource Management Authentication
I love Azure and I love PowerShell. They are a perfect marriage. It’s amazing how much automation you can do inside of Azure with some PowerShell scripting. In fact, you hardly see me using the Azure Portal these days. Automation … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, SQLServerPedia Syndication
Tagged automation, Login-AzureRmAccount, powershell, Resource Manager