A limitation with Azure SQL database has been its inability to do cross-database SQL queries. This has changed with the introduction of elastic database queries, now in preview. However, it’s not as easy as on-prem SQL Server, where you can … Continue reading →
No, Superdome X is not the name of the stadium where they played in the last Super Bowl. Rather, Superdome X is HP’s top of the line server running Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition or Windows Server 2016 … Continue reading →
(updated 10/28/20). Life we be so much easier if we could just trust everyone, but since we can’t we need solid security for our databases. Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics have many security features to make you sleep … Continue reading →
Even though an Azure SQL Database stores all data on the Azure cloud, it does not mean that your options for managing and monitoring the databases are limited compared to on-prem databases. In fact, the options available are very similar to on-prem, … Continue reading →
One of the advantages Azure SQL Database has over on-prem SQL Server is the ease in which it can scale. I’ll discuss the various options for horizontal scaling, vertical scaling, and other similar features. Horizontal scaling refers to adding or removing … Continue reading →
Microsoft made available the first technical preview of its new Microsoft Azure Stack offering today. It was announced last week. Azure Stack brings the cloud model of computing to every datacenter – your own private cloud. Azure Stack is a new hybrid … Continue reading →
This blog describes the various approaches you can use to migrate an on-premises SQL Server database to Azure SQL Database. In this migration process you migrate both your schema and your data from the SQL Server database in your current … Continue reading →
Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service in the cloud. It uses a special version of Microsoft SQL Server as its backend that is nearly identical to SQL Server (see Azure SQL Database Transact-SQL differences). While there are many benefits … Continue reading →