Updating Azure SQL Managed Instance properties using ARM templates
Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud. Azure SQL Managed Instance allows you to easily change instance settings such as changing number of cores...
View ArticleChange size of Azure SQL Managed Instance using PowerShell
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...
View ArticleCreate database on Azure SQL Managed Instance using PowerShell
Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Microsoft Azure cloud that enables you to work with your databases using standard TSQL or PowerShell. In this post you will...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Index: Massively Parallel Trickle Insert
A traditional scenario of loading data into CCI is a nightly load from one or more data files containing millions of rows. Recommended technique is to load the data with batchsize >= 102400 as...
View ArticleCross-instance point-in-time restore in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Microsoft Azure cloud. Besides built-in management operations, Azure SQL Database Managed Instance enables you to perform...
View ArticleQuick-start script: Setup Azure network environment for Azure SQL Managed...
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud and placed in your Azure network. In this post will be explained how to create environment where...
View ArticleMay 2018 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our May 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 ArticleQuick-start script: Create Azure SQL Managed Instance using PowerShell
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud. In this post you can find a simple PowerShell script that you can use to quickly create a new...
View ArticlePoint-in-time restore of a database on Azure SQL Managed Instance using...
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is PaaS version of SQL Server hosted in Azure cloud. Managed Instance enables you to create a database as a copy of the existing database at some point in time using...
View ArticleDeploy Azure SQL Managed Instance network environment using ARM
Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Azure cloud. You would need to prepare Azure environment where SQL Managed Instance will be hosted before you create your...
View ArticleJune 2018 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our June top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain their top positions. This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top Database...
View ArticleUsing custom types as arrays in T-SQL
One of the missing language features in T-SQL language is array support. In some cases you can use custom types to work with arrays that are passed as parameters to your stored procedures. Custom types...
View ArticleValidate your Azure network environment for SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed PaaS SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud that is placed in Azure Virtual network, and you need to ensure that your network is properly...
View ArticlePublic Preview of Table Variable Deferred Compilation in Azure SQL Database
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...
View ArticlePublic Preview of Row Mode Memory Grant Feedback in Azure SQL Database
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...
View ArticlePublic Preview of MATCH support in MERGE DML for Graph tables in Azure SQL...
SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced native graph database capabilities used to model many-to-many relationships. The first implementation of SQL Graph introduced support for edges to...
View ArticleApproximate Count Distinct enters Public Preview in Azure SQL Database
Kevin Farlee Principal Program Manager, SQL Database We are pleased to announce the public preview of Approximate Count Distinct, the first of the Approximate Query Processing features. Approximate...
View ArticleAzure SQL Database team at Data Platform Summit 2018
Azure SQL Database Engineering Team (@azuresqldb) represented by (Ajay Jagannathan, and Sunil Agarwal) will be speaking at Data Platform Summit 2018 (#DPS10), Asia’s Premier Data & Analytics...
View ArticlePearl Abyss: Massive Scale using Azure SQL Database
Pearl Abyss is a Korea based game development studio established in 2009. Black Desert Online, a PC-massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is their main title in production published...
View ArticleJuly 2018 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our July top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain their top positions. This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top Database...
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