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Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs Azure Features List

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After much reading through the internet looking for Amazon’s equivalent of Microsoft’s Azure functions (Lambda), I found this outstanding link that ” helps you understand how Microsoft Azure services compare to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Whether you are planning a multi-cloud solution with Azure and AWS, or migrating to Azure, you can compare the IT capabilities of Azure and AWS services in all categories”..

This is extremely handy and wanted to share it with you.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-professional/services

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Azure Site Recovery jobs fail on servers hosting SQL Server instances with AUTO_CLOSE DBs

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This post is to help you if you are suffering from the following issue:

A VSS writer has rejected an event with error. The writer experienced a non-transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error is likely to reoccur. Changes that the writer made to the writer components while handling the event will not be available to the requester. Check the event log for related events from the application hosting the VSS writer.

Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:

  • You have a server that is running any version of Microsoft SQL Server.
  • This SQL Server instance hosts databases that have the AUTO-CLOSE option set.
  • You run a non-component VSS backup (for example, by using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Agent) against volumes of this server that is hosting SQL Server database files.

In this situation, you notice that the VSS backup fails and triggers the following entry in the Application log.

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SQL Server 2019 eBook

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SQL Server 2019 is ready available for use, but before you download you should review the webinars, white papers and eBook available on the technology (definitely the eBook 😉 ).

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You can find the eBook at the following link –

https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-introducing-sql-server-2019-content.html

 

 

Azure SQL Best Practices?

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A way to enforce good practice and standards is by Azure Policy. As stated by Microsoft “Azure Policy is a service in Azure that you use to create, assign, and manage policies. These policies enforce different rules and effects over your resources, so those resources stay compliant with your corporate standards and service level agreements”.  Pretty important stuff if you ask me.

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