Microsoft Azure for databases and applications: Azure SQL, managed instances, virtual machines, storage, networking, identity and migration.
Intro Let me present you in this Blog post a useful tool to asset your Azure environment and in a second step show you how to add Azure SQL managed instance in the assessment report. ARI presentation Azure Resource Inventory is an open-source project developed in PowerShell that allows you to quickly generate a complete Excel report of your Azure…
Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 09:30 am with the keynote: Creating a Data Culture… My schedule for the day: D4B1 – SPHINX – Configure SQL Server for efficient troubleshooting – Intermediate – Christophe Laporte D4B2 – HYDRA – Unleash the testing of your CI/CD pipelines for SQL Server deployments in Azure DevOps – Advanced – Kevin Chant…
Why is this feature interesting? The Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022 will enable you to replicate your operational data into Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. Azure Synapse is an enterprise analytics service that accelerates time to insight across data warehouses and big data systems. Azure Synapse brings together the best of SQL technologies used in enterprise data…
Presentation of the Backup Recovery solution provided by Microsoft Azure for Azure Database for MySQL Server
Introduction This second blog follows the first blog about deploying MySQL Server on Microsoft Azure. In the first blog, we saw how easy it is to deploy a MySQL server in minutes on the Azure cloud and we connected on it through the MySQL Shell client. This second blog is more focused on the performance of MySQL in the Azure…
Introduction Did you know that you can run MySQL on Microsoft Azure for free for 30 days with a $200 credit? In this first blog I’ll show how to create a MySQL Server and provide few information related to this service. In futures blogs I’ll present insights regarding MySQL performances and backup/recovery. Let’s start by registering ourselves The registration process…
As a consultant at dbi services we can dedicate a significant part of our time to training and I took the opportunity today to attend an online conference. In this blog post, I will present this event and one of the sessions that particularly interested me. The event I followed is the Virtual Symposium – SQL Server & Azure SQL…
Azure Migrate provides a set of tools to assess and migrate on-premise infrastructure like Hyper-V or VMware virtual machines, physical servers as well as SQL and other Databases, web application… The Azure Migrate overview page resumes the different key scenario available. Lets have a look how easily you can assess your Hyper-V virtual machines for a future migration to Azure…
SQL Azure Database by default offers a 99.99% availability SLA across all its service tiers. This means that for any database, the downtime should not exceed 52 minutes per year. Using Zone redundancy increases availability to 99.995% which is about 26 minutes per year. These impressive numbers can be achieved through in-region redundancy of the compute and storage resources and…
In this blog post, I’ll go through the steps to create an Azure SQL Database using Azure PowerShell. Introduction to Azure SQL Database The SQL database services provided by Microsoft on the cloud are now grouped under the name of Azure SQL. The Azure SQL family contains services that I will briefly summarize; Azure SQL Database – DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) Azure…
During my last blog-posts I tested the MARS (Microsoft Azure Recovery Service) through Windows Admin Center and how to use Azure Backup to recover files/folders or System State for protected servers. To continue my Azure protection possibilities overview I will today installed a MABS on one of my virtual on-premise server and uses it to protect my others virtual on-premises…
Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) which gives us the possibility to create application with a performant database without to take care of the relying infrastructure. Azure SQL Database is based on the latest stable version of Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine. We have the choose between 2 purchasing models: a vCore-based purchasing model and a DTU-based (Database…
