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Azure SQL Database – General Overview – Refresh Part 1

Björn Peters — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 12:25:00 +0000

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...

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Azure SQL – Change your Skills – DataSaturday #6 Malta

Björn Peters — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:22:43 +0000

Yesterday I was able to give my speech as part of DataSaturday #6 in Malta. It was about changes in the life of a DBA when he is confronted with the fact that his SQL servers and/or databases should be migrated to the Microsoft Cloud Azure. With this session, I wanted to minimize the fears...

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

Björn Peters — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:13:20 +0000

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...

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Resize an Azure SQL Database with Powershell – Part 2

Björn Peters — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:41:07 +0000

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...

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First steps with Azure SQL Database and Powershell – Part 1

Björn Peters — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:56:39 +0000

In addition to the ability to deploy a virtual server on a SQL server in Azure, there is also the “simpler” method to deploy only one database on demand => the Azure SQL Database. This database-as-a-service is also very good and easy to use for a variety of applications, although there are a lot of...

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