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.

Continue reading

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.

Continue reading

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.

Continue reading

Azure SQL Database – Optimizing For Ad-hoc Workloads

Today I found out that it is now possible to enable the setting optimize for ad-hoc workloads at the database level when using Azure SQL Database. Traditionally this was always set at the server level for locally based SQL Servers.

Continue reading