Database ownership chaining in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Managed Instance enables you to run cross-database queries the same way you do it in SQL Server. It also supports cross-database ownership chaining that will be explained in this post. Cross...
View ArticleReaching Azure disk storage limit on General Purpose Azure SQL Database...
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is SQL Server implementation on Azure cloud that keeps all database files on Azure storage. In this post you will see how Managed Instance allocates disks in the...
View ArticleCreate linked server to readable secondary replica in Managed Instance...
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud that provides most of the Azure SQL Pass and SQL Server functionalities, such as linked servers...
View ArticleSending emails in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance enables you to use most of the SQL Server features in fully managed cloud environment. One of the features is database mail system that enables you to send emails...
View ArticleWorking with Azure SQL Managed Instance using Azure CLI
Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) is a command line library that enables you to quickly and easily work with your Azure SQL Managed Instances. In this post, you will see some basic CLI commands that...
View ArticleWhat is built-in intelligence in Azure SQL Database?
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed latest stable version of SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud that has several built-in features that protect and manage your data. These features may...
View ArticleMeet the Azure SQL Database team at Microsoft Ignite Conference
Azure SQL Database Engineering team (@azuresqldb) represented by Lindsey Allen, Joachim Hammer, Drazen Sumic, Ajay Jagannathan, Kevin Farlee, Xiaochen Wu, Jakub Szymaszek, Mladen Andzic, Srdan...
View ArticlePersisting job history in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server hosted in Azure cloud. Although it supports many SQL Server features, there are some constraints compared to SQL Server that you manage. One of...
View ArticleThe easiest way to create Azure VM that can access your Azure SQL Managed...
Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed and secured SQL Server Database engine hosted in Azure cloud, placed in your private Azure VNet. In order to access your Managed Instance, you need to create...
View ArticleIntroducing Batch Mode on Rowstore
Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt optimization strategies to your application workload’s run-time conditions. These improvements...
View ArticleStorage Configuration Guidelines for SQL Server on Azure VM
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines service offers the full control of VM and SQL Server and enables the simplest cloud migration path for SQL Server workloads. SQL IaaS Extension is installed on each...
View ArticleAugust 2018 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our August 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 ArticlePublic Preview of Graph Edge Constraints on SQL Server 2019
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 nodes to...
View ArticleAnalysing 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,...
View ArticleSeptember 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...
View ArticleIntroducing 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...
View ArticlePublic 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...
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