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

Microsoft recently published updated guidance for running SQL Server on Azure virtual machines (VMs). I wanted to share ... You should create separate volumes for data files, transaction log ...

In recent releases of SQL Server, Microsoft has delivered ... When you buy SQL Azure, you're not just buying a VM-hosting SQL -- you are buying a service with smarts that are there to back you ...

Learn how to use the Azure ... server and the necessary database infrastructure without the need to supply, maintain, and secure physical hardware. Small businesses can create and access an SQL ...

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server ... than any other VM series in Azure. As the latest Ebdsv5 VMs support higher IOPS when using Premium SSD v2, SQL Server can now perform ...

If you move any of these SQL Server and Windows Server workloads to Azure VMs, ESUs will be enabled automatically so you don’t have to do any configuration. But if you want automated patching ...

This enables the threat actors to gain access to the SQL Server instance hosted on Azure Virtual Machine with elevated permissions to execute SQL commands and extract valuable data. This includes ...

and a specialized fencing agent for Azure. Finally, as on Windows, SQL Server running on these Linux VMs can take advantage of persistent memory (PMEM) when it's available. While Microsoft is ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

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