Saving Costs in Azure

Nobody wants to waste money and being in the cloud is no exception! Luckily for us Azure is very efficient in tracking usage patterns and its associated costs, in this case, potential cost savings.

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Azure SQL Database sa Connections?

I was using a query on one of my local SQL Servers where I wanted to know what logins were connected to my databases. I actually ended up running the query against my Azure SQL Database and had some very interesting results.

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The world of Automatic Tuning – SQL Server 2017

Times are changing, 10 years ago I would never have thought that self-tuning databases would be available as a packaged product. I was testing out SQL Server 2017 Automatic Tuning recently and I ended up with the following situation. Below shows an image from the query store.

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Azure Portal – Bad Request

I had a strange issue recently when trying to login to the Azure Portal. Quite simply I would enter my login details and ended up with this message – Bad Request – Request Too Long, HTTP Error 400. The Size of the request headers is too long.

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