SQL Server Looking into Differential Backups

I seem to be writing solely about Azure so to shake things up a bit I am going back to my “roots”. In SQL Server your differential backup is cumulative and NOT incremental and a differential will contain the data that has changed since the last full backup.

Let’s dig in using DBCC PAGE.

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Moving off SQL Server 2008 / R2 – What can Azure offer?

You will very likely know that SQL Server 2008 / R2 end of support is on July 9th 2019. Not that long to start thinking about and assessing your options. For this post I just want to discuss couple of things that you can do and I specifically mention Azure technologies, think of this as a high level starter guide.

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Azure SQL DB VS SQL Server For the DBA

Being the start of the new year and with new projects most likely starting again I would like to share with you an article I wrote a while back, but still quite relevant.

Hopefully you find it useful for those wanting to know key differences between Azure SQL Database and a locally installed SQL Server from a DBA perspective and whether or not these key differences can be seen as advantages or disadvantages.

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SQL Server Backup To Azure Storage

Once again I would like to share with you an article I wrote about backing up (and restoring) a SQL Server database to Azure Blob Storage. In this article I write about some important concepts and show you the code needed to do this. This includes all the lovely components such as SQL Server credentials, secrets and SAS etc.

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