What 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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Monitor local storage usage on General Purpose Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Managed Instance has predefined storage space that depends on the values of reserved storage and vCores that you choose when you provision the instance. In this post you will see how to...
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Running Azure CosmosDB queries from SQL Server using ODBC driver
Azure CosmosDB provides ODBC driver that enables you to query CosmosDB collections like classic databases. In this post you will see how to query CosmosDB collections from Sql Server using...
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Identify log write limits on Azure SQL Managed Instance using QPI library
Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Azure cloud. Managed Instance introduces some limits such as max log write throughput that can slow down your workload. In this...
View ArticleOur new Azure SQL Database blog site is live
Follow us in our new blog site going forward: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-SQL-Database/bg-p/Azure-SQL-Database... Read more
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