Query Store is not just for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database anymore. Microsoft announced back in Oct 2018 that Query Store was available in Public Preview for PostgreSQL. How cool is that! As Microsoft continues to expand the Azure Data Platform with including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others, features that we know and love […]
Category: Azure
New vCore Compute Levels for Azure SQL Database and Elastic Pools
Additional vCore-based elastic pools and single databases have been expanded for the general purpose, business critical, and hyperscale service tiers. This provides customers with more flexibility and options when migrating DTU-based deployments and right-sizing workloads for the cloud. Azure SQL Database, Elastic Pools, and Hyperscale have two processor types to select from. Gen 4 offers […]
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Business Critical Tier Now Available
The business critical tier for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is now available. Customers needing a higher level of high availability and disk performance now have the supported option of the business critical tier. The business critical tier provides customers with three secondary copies of their instance. Two are non-readable and the third provides a […]
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
As of October 2018, Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is now generally available in the general purpose tier. Business Critical should be available in the near future. The general purpose tier of Managed Instance being available will now allow businesses to do proof of concepts and be able to elevate those environments to production knowing […]
MVP for Another Year
I am a little late in posting this, but I still wanted to share. It is a huge honor to be recognized as a Microsoft MVP for another year. I am humbled to receive this award again for the 2018-2019 cycle. Thank you to all of you who provide constant support and opportunities for me […]
Azure Training in London
I am very excited about my upcoming IEAzure class being held in London, September 10th and 11th at the Marriott in Kensington (London). This is a content rich class covering SQL Server running on Azure Virtual Machines (Azure IaaS) as well as Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance (PaaS). You read that correctly, we’ve expanded the […]
Azure SQL Database Manage Instance
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is bridging the gap between 0n-premises SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Azure SQL Database Managed Instance gives you the benefits of Platform as a Service and the scoped configuration of a SQL Server instance. The overall goal of Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is to provide 100% surface configuration […]
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is now private preview
Today is the day that Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is available for the world to explore. Private preview means not production ready, but ready enough to allow users to start working with a product or feature to test and learn about it. If you have an active Azure subscription, you click on create a […]