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This is the the 6th blog post in the series about Azure Arc enabled Data Services. The initial post can be found at Azure Arc for Data Services, part 1 – Intro. After thinking it through and re-reading the...

This is the the 5th blog post in the series about Azure Arc enabled Data Services. The initial post can be found at Azure Arc for Data Services, part 1 – Intro. In this post I will focus on the task that is not...

This is the the 4th blog post in the series about Azure Arc enabled Data Services. The initial post can be found at Azure Arc for Data Services, part 1 – Intro. If you are already using Azure and AKS (Azure Kubernetes...

You do not have to be a genius to recognise that the year 2020 was a kind of different, when compared to all previous years of this site and my professional activities. Beside the obvious Global Pandemic that took over...

It is a sad situation, but as you should know, that since January the 15th, PASS does not exist anymore. Should they have diversified the investments ? Should they acted differently ? Should they focused on better...

This is the the 3rd blog post in the series about Azure Arc enabled Data Services or how I call them Azure Arc for Data Services. The initial post can be found at Azure Arc for Data Services, part 1 – Intro. To...

Welcome to my small series on Azure Arc for Data Services. In this series I will explain and explore the offerings of Azure Arc for Data Services, point to some limitations (yes, most probably very soon fixed by...

If you are using Azure Blob Storage for SQL Server Backups, you need to know a couple of important details before you start with some significant project and as you should know (and in my head I am keep on hearing Grant...

As you should have heard by now, PASS Summit 2020 is going fully virtual this year (the only possible solution for the current situation and the impossibility of traveling in good conditions around the world). With 4...

There is so much to think about when talking/writing about the SQL Server on the cloud VMs, and in this blog post I am going to touch on one of the less spoken and might be – one of the most controversial topics of...

I wanted to write about a pretty old Azure feature that apparently approaching General Availability aka GA (as publicly mentioned by different Microsoft PMs) after 4+ years of being in preview – the Azure Elastic...

There are a lot of great examples of businesses doing the right thing during the current Pandemic of Covid-19. Unfortunately, it looks to me that Pearson VUE is not one of them. Last Friday (29th of May of 2020), I have...

I have been working with Azure for a good number of years and felt that I wanted to share more of my experiences, since the migration to Azure (or to any cloud whatsoever) in the times of pandemic is growing very...

Today the topic is something that is totally unexpected – the throttling of the SQL Server Backups. Why unexpected you might ask – well, unless you run workloads on Cloud VMs, you might be totally unaware of the...

SQL Server has originally introduced Resource Governor in the first decade of the 21st Century, with the release 2008 to be more precise and a number of changes to were made to the original engine ever since. Looking...

There was one little feature in SQL Server that went pretty much unnoticed by the most people, and the reason for that is not something to be mostly happy about – most people do not use this or any other security...

Carrying on with the Azure Synapse series on the workload identification, classification and isolation started with Query Identification in Azure SQL DW (Synapse Analytics), in this post I wanted to focus on the...