Data Saturday #14 – Oslo 2021 – Introduction into Azure Arc Data Services
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Data Saturday #14 – Oslo 2021 – Introduction into Azure Arc Data Services

Today the time had come – I was finally able to speak at Data Saturday (formerly SQLSaturday) in Oslo … that was finally not due to the organizers but rather to me or the pandemic, since I hadn’t dared to give lectures until 2020 Keeping English, I hadn’t submitted any sessions for Oslo either. I…

South Florida Data Geeks Saturday 2021
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South Florida Data Geeks Saturday 2021

Exploring the Data Geeks Community in South Florida On a warm and inviting Saturday, I delivered another presentation, this time in beautiful South Florida, to the Data Geeks community. This event marked the eleventh year of their “SQL Saturday,” drawing around 700 in-person participants passionate about all things related to the Microsoft Data Platform. These…

Azure SQL Database – General Overview – Refresh Part 1
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Azure SQL Database – General Overview – Refresh Part 1

I see the other contributions as a personal refresh of my knowledge of the Azure SQL Database and all its numerous features. After a long time, it was necessary to deal with it in detail again and show my own experience with learning that “writing down” helps remember the content and essential points. So I’ll just…

Azure SQL VM – no possibility to configure the disk usage
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Azure SQL VM – no possibility to configure the disk usage

A customer had asked me the last few days to help him optimize a SQL server on an Azure VM. The customer always had slight performance problems with this SQL server, so he first asked the application manufacturer or supervisor, but they didn’t want to or could help. The only answer they received was that…

Pause / Resume / Backup an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 3
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Pause / Resume / Backup an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 3

Many services in Azure allow certain cost savings through automation, this can also be achieved with the Platform-as-a-Service “Azure SQL Database”, this is what this blog post is all about. Quite as simple as e.g. with the Azure Analysis Service it is not because actually there is no pause-resume functionality – here comes the backup…

Resize an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 2
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Resize an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 2

In the first part of my Azure SQL Database Powershell Automation series I showed how to create the resource group, the logical SQL Server and the corresponding database, I would like to show you how to implement a resize of the performance level of this database. Why should I want to resize a database? Upwards…