Analysing inventory of Managed Instances using T-SQL
Sometime you would need to know how many Managed Instance you have created in Azure cloud. Although you can find all information about the Azure SQL Managed Instances in Azure portal or API (ARM,...
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September 2018 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our September top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain their top positions. This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top...
View ArticleAnnouncing Public Preview of Accelerated Database Recovery
Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Accelerated Database Recovery! Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) is a new SQL Server Engine feature (available in Azure SQL, Azure SQL Data...
View ArticleSQL Server IaaS Extension Query Service for SQL Server on Azure VM
SQL Server IaaS Extension is installed by default on Azure virtual machines deployed from SQL Server based images on Azure Market Place. SQL Server IaaS extension manages SQL Server configurations on...
View ArticleMeet the Azure SQL Database team at PASS Summit 2018
Azure SQL Database Engineering team (@azuresqldb) represented by Lindsey Allen, Joachim Hammer, Ajay Jagannathan, Joe Sack, Borko Novakovic, Mine Tokus, Kevin Farlee, Xiaochen Wu, Alice Kupcik, Jakub...
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Introducing Scalar UDF Inlining
Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt optimization strategies to your application workload’s runtime conditions. These improvements...
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Public preview of derived tables and views on graph tables in MATCH queries
SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced native graph database capabilities for modeling many-to-many relationships. The first implementation of SQL Graph introduced support for nodes to...
View ArticleWhat Azure permissions are required to create SQL Managed Instance?
Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server Instance hosted in Azure cloud that is placed in your Azure VNet. Users who are creating instances need to have some permissions. In this post...
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Diagnostic Data for Synchronous Statistics Update Blocking
Consider the following query execution scenario: You execute a SELECT query that triggers an automatic synchronous statistics update. The synchronous statistics update begins execution and your query...
View ArticleCreate Azure SQL Managed Instance using Azure CLI
Azure command line interface (CLI) is a set of commands that you can use to create and manage Azure resources. In this post your will see how can you create Managed Instance using Azure CLI. The Azure...
View ArticleModify Azure SQL Database Managed Instance using Azure CLI
Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully-managed SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud. With Managed Instance you can easily add/remove cores associated to the instance and change the reserved...
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Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical tier is Generally Available
We are happy to announce General availability of Business Critical tier in Azure SQL Managed Instance – architectural model built for high-performance and IO demanding databases. After 5 months of...
View ArticleRecreate dropped database on Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Database – Managed Instance is fully-managed PaaS service that provides advanced disaster-recovery capabilities. Even if you accidentally drop the database or someone drops your database as...
View ArticleGetting started with Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed PaaS version of SQL Server hosted in Azure cloud and placed in you own VNet with private IP address. In this post, I will shortly explain how to configure...
View ArticleAzure Stream Analytics now supports Azure SQL Database as reference data input
Reference data is a dataset that is static or slow changing in nature which you can correlate with real-time data streams to augment the data. Azure Stream Analytics leverages versioning of reference...
View ArticleWe are moving!
This blog is in the process of being migrated to one of the new consolidated SQL Server and Azure SQL Database blogs on the Microsoft TechCommunity website. Once the migration is complete, we will post...
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Measuring file io performance on Managed Instance using QPI
Checking file performance and comparing performance characteristics between SQL Server database engines in Azure cloud and your on-premises environment might be tricky and require some better knowledge...
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Reduced recompilations for workloads using temporary tables across multiple...
SQL Server 2019 introduces several performance optimizations which will improve performance with minimal changes required to your application code. In this blog post we’ll discuss one such...
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Analyzing wait statistics on Managed Instance
Wait statistics are information that might help you understand why the query duration is long and identify the queries that are waiting for something in database engine. In this post, I will show to...
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Sending resource alerts on Managed Instance using db_mail
One of the biggest issue that you might experience in Managed Instance is reaching storage limit or finding out that you don’t have enough CPU. In this case you would need to get the bigger instance;...
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