SQL Azure != SQL Server
This may come as shocking news to some, but Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL DB (Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL DB, SQL Azure Database, or whatever name you know it as) are very much not the same thing. They may look similar and they may act similar, but they are very much not…
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Stopping Azure Services Automatically
Like most speakers who give presentations using Microsoft Azure, I’ve managed to leave services running for days (or weeks) without realizing it. To help solve this I put together a run book that runs in our Azure account and which runs every night. It turns off VMs, scales SQL DBs down to the basic size,…
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PASS Summit 2016: Karaoke Time
I normally announce my PASS Summit Karaoke Party turning my PASS Summit pre-conference webcast, but I’m not sure when I’ll have a chance to schedule the webcast, and I felt that my party announcement was to close to PASS for those that wanted to attend. So this year I’m doing a separate blog post in…
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New Webcast and #datachat: The first year of SQL Server 2016 in Production
Join Joey D’Antoni and I on July 29th at 11am Pacific Time for a webcast where we’ll be talking about our first year of managing Microsoft SQL Server 2016 in production. You read that correctly, one of our clients was an official early adopter with Microsoft and they have been running SQL Server 2016 since…
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