Tag Archives: Azure

Database Mirroring is Back in Azure SQL Database

Posted on March 30, 2024 by way0utwest

Database mirroring was a cool feature in SQL Server 2005. I guess it’s still a feature, though it’s listed as deprecated in the documentation. There is still a mirroring dialog in the SSMS database properties dialog in more recent versions … Continue reading →

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The Azure Carrot

Posted on July 27, 2022 by way0utwest

Microsoft wants more people to move their database workloads to Azure. They are constantly adding new features, capabilities, even tools to help people move databases to some part of Azure. It’s working well, as the latest quarterly report shows tremendous … Continue reading →

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Constant Azure Improvement

Posted on April 16, 2022 by way0utwest

This week I noticed a number of changes in the Azure platform from their change feed. Actually, every week has a crazy number of changes across the entire platform, but this week a number of these were related to data … Continue reading →

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My Favorite Data Platform Feature

Posted on March 30, 2022 by way0utwest

At SQL Bits a few weeks back there was a community keynote on Friday. Ben Weissman and Rob Sewell put this together as a fun way of involving others. They invited a number of people to each take 5 minutes … Continue reading →

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