DBCC CHECKDB Azure SQL Database

Who should be running DBCC CHECKDB for Azure SQL Database? Should it be Microsoft or should customers be scheduling it? All official information just tells you that you CAN run it (below shows the green tick) but still no clarity around the question.

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Azure SQL Database – Scaling up

Scaling up and down your SQL Database is something that is quite common to do. I want to discuss the impact of moving up and down tiers, in terms of your transactions and connections.

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Interviews and Oranges

What a great topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Kendra Little https://littlekendra.com/2017/08/01/tsql-tuesday-93-interviewing-patterns-anti-patterns/

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The topic being: Interviewing Patterns and Anti-Patterns. I have had MANY (50 +) interviews over time with a lot of failures, so what have I learnt?

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SQL Server Rookie Mistakes

A quick elementary post which is my entry to this months’ T-SQL Tuesday entry hosted by a good friend SQLDoubleG http://www.sqldoubleg.com/2017/07/03/tsql2sday-92-lessons-learned-the-hard-way/.

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We are here to talk about mistakes we used to make. There is one mistake that I am going to discuss and is something that I used to do 10 years ago, obviously I do not do this anymore.

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