Category: Articles
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SQL Server 2016 – Identifying Tables to Stretch to Azure Cloud
Yesterday I covered what’s strecthing a database to cloud. Today I’m going to cover how to identify the tables which can stretch to Cloud. In most of the cases you knew which table we can move however if you are not sure when one then you can make use of this tool. I’m going to…
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SQL Server 2016 – What’s Stretch Database
One of the new feature that’s going to accompany in SQL Server 2016. There is a significant improvement in the hardware sector moving into SSD, flash disk etc which increases the cost of hardware. Holding all the historical or archieve data in to this high performing disks is going to cost you more, assuming you…
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Issues restoring SQL Azure bacpac due to QueryStoreStaleQueryThreshold
In our environment we have inhouse and SQL Azure databases. We will be refreshing the DEV environments weekly once from the production SQL Azure databases. As you know backups are taken care by Azure itself, so we can simply add the storage in our inhouse server and extract it as data tier application.
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SQL Azure – Dynamic Data Masking
Yesterday i covered what’s data masking and how can we implement in SQL Server 2016. Today I would like to continute the same topic in SQL Azure.
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SQL Server 2016 – Dynamic Data Masking
One of the new feature that’s being developed with SQL Server 2016. If you are a DBA then you will like this feature very much. In the real world when you move the data from production to development or uat server we are supposed to obfuscate the data so that the developer wont see the…