Minimize Downtime with SQL MI Disaster Recovery

I speak to many people who use cloud technologies, especially database tech and how little consideration they give to their MISSION CRITICAL Databases that run in the cloud and its Disaster Recovery process. When I say mission critical, I mean its relative to the company I am talking to, so what might be a tier 1 app for you might not be the case for Bob.

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Azure SQL Managed Instance Versions

Just a really quick FYI for the readers. If you are using Managed Instances in Azure (If not, why not?) and you connect vis SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) and run the classic commands SELECT @@VERSION, what will you see?

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Azure SQL Best Practices?

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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SQL Server Phantom Reads

With Halloween around the corner what better topic to discuss than phantom reads. A phantom read occurs when rows have been inserted after a read operation and becomes visible in a follow-up read operation within the same transaction.

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