Tag Archives: Azure

Serverless Gets Faster

Posted on October 12, 2024 by way0utwest

When the Azure SQL Database serverless option was introduced, I was a bit disappointed that I couldn’t get the database to pause any sooner than 1 hour. That meant I needed to ensure clients didn’t access the system for an … Continue reading →

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Creating a Synapse Workspace

Posted on August 26, 2024 by way0utwest

As part of my job, I needed to research how a few things work with Synapse and Fabric. The latter includes the former, mostly. I decided to setup a workspace and a do some experimentation. My first stop was the … Continue reading →

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Managed Instance Impressions

Posted on May 27, 2024 by way0utwest

Several years ago, I heard about a new product coming in Azure that would provide an IaaS (infrastructure as a service) VM to run SQL Server, with Microsoft managing most of the admin tasks for the instance, like patching and … Continue reading →

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Database Mirroring is Back in Azure SQL Database

Posted on March 30, 2024 by way0utwest

Database mirroring was a cool feature in SQL Server 2005. I guess it’s still a feature, though it’s listed as deprecated in the documentation. There is still a mirroring dialog in the SSMS database properties dialog in more recent versions … Continue reading →

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