Azure

How to migrate from on-premise to an Azure SQL Database

As a SQL Server DBA we have the habit to migrate databases from an instance to another one or to a new environment. But migrate a database from on-premise to the Azure Cloud is an operation that we don’t(…)

How to create an Azure SQL Database

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(…)

Windocks, SQL Server and Azure in our internal CI pipeline

During the last DevOps Day in Geneva, I presented a sample of our CI implementation related to our MSSQL DMK maintenance product(…)

Docker EE – UCP 3.1.2 installation failed in Azure

Docker EE 2.1 is a Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform on-premise or in the cloud. To manage your cluster of containers, Docker EE allows you to install UCP (Universal Control Panel). When you plan to install the UCP 3.1.2 in Azure,(…)

How To Create A New Container Group Using Azure CLI

Steps To Create A New Container Group Using Azure CLI Before starting to create a container group, a MSDN account is needed to use the Azure platform, please refer to your manager for further information. In this tutorial, the(…)

Azure SQL Managed instances, Business Critical Tier and high availability

Last blog of this year 2018 with SQL databases and Cloud Azure and this is not trivial choice. <Speculation mode> I would say year 2019 could be important for all stakeholders. Cloud transformation has begun in many forms at customer(…)

Pass summit – dbi visit day 3

The Microsoft data platform is evolving The third day began with the Keynote help by Rohan Kumar the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data by Microsoft The main message was “Hybrid data platform is the way for the(…)

Pass summit – dbi visit day 1

Designing Modern Data and Analytic Solution in Azure After having explained the pros and cons of Azure and the decision drivers for going to an Azure Architecture, some interesting messages were delivered like the decoupling of the storage(…)

First steps into SQL Server 2019 availability groups on K8s

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced the first public CTP version of next SQL Server version (CTP2). It is not a surprise, the SQL Server vNext becomes SQL Server 2019 and there are a plenty of(…)

Using the managed PostgreSQL service in Azure

In the last post we had a look on how you can bring up a customized PostgreSQL instance in the Azure cloud. Now I want to check what you can do with the managed service. For(…)