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How to Sync SQL Server Data with Azure Search
A common request we receive in Azure Search is how to extend data in SQL Server databases to Azure Search. This may be because people wish to offload the full-text workload from their on-premises SQL...
View ArticleRunning Critical Application Workloads on Microsoft Azure D-Series Virtual...
On the Azure Customer Advisory Team (AzureCAT), we’ve been testing the performance of one of the latest generations of hardware components now being introduced into our public cloud called the...
View ArticleMigration cookbook now available for the latest Azure SQL Database Update (V12)
We are delighted to announce the availability of a migration cookbook for the latest Azure SQL Database Update (V12)! The cookbook describes various approaches you can use to migrate an on-premises SQL...
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Automated Everything with SQL Server on IaaS VMs
Today, we are excited to announce support for automated backup and automated patching, available directly in the portal for SQL Server Azure Virtual Machines. Both of these features are built with the...
View ArticleApplication-Aware Availability Solutions with Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery enables customers to deploy application-aware availability on demand solutions. Be it Windows Server or Linux based applications, Microsoft first party enterprise applications or...
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Azure IT Workload: SharePoint Server 2013 with SQL Server AlwaysOn...
The Azure IT workload for SharePoint with SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups has been published. Although Microsoft recommends using SharePoint Online with Office 365 for SharePoint sites in the...
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July 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our July top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Hilary Cotter maintain their top positions.This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top Database...
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August 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our August top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo maintain his first position in the cloud ranking while Erland Sommarskog climbs to the top in the All Databases ranking.This...
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Introducing SQL Vulnerability Assessment for Azure SQL Database and...
I am delighted to announce the public preview of our latest security development from the Microsoft SQL product team, the new SQL Vulnerability Assessment (VA). SQL Vulnerability Assessment is your...
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September 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our September top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo maintains his first position in the cloud ranking while Olaf Helper climbs to the top in the All Databases ranking.This Leaderboard...
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October 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our October top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo maintains the first position in the cloud ranking while Visakh Murukesan climbs to the top in the All Databases ranking.This...
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November 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our November top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo maintains the first position in the cloud ranking while Visakh Murukesan maintains the top in the All Databases ranking.This...
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December 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our December top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain their top positions.This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top...
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Migrating to Azure SQL Database with zero downtime for read-only workloads
Special thanks to MSAsset engineering team’s Peter Liu (Senior Software Engineer), Vijay Kannan (Software Engineer), Sathya Muhandiramalage (Senior Software Engineer), Bryan Castillo (Principal...
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Introducing SQL Information Protection for Azure SQL Database and on-premises...
We are delighted to announce the public preview of SQL Information Protection, introducing advanced capabilities built into Azure SQL Database for discovering, classifying, labeling, and protecting the...
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Accelerate real-time big data analytics with Spark connector for Microsoft...
Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Today, you can use the built-in JDBC connector to connect to Azure SQL Database or SQL Server to read or write data from...
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Azure Backup for SQL Server on Azure now in public preview
Earlier this week, Corey Sanders announced preview of a new Azure Backup capability to backup SQL workloads running in Azure Virtual Machines in his post about why you should bet on azure for your...
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Lift SQL Server Integration Services packages to Azure with Azure Data Factory
Data is vital to every app and experience we build today. With increasing amount of data, organizations do not want to be tied down by increasing infrastructural costs that come with it. Data engineers...
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Simplify modern data warehousing with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Fivetran
Gaining insights rapidly from data is critical to being competitive in today’s business world. With a modern data warehouse, customers can bring together all their data at any scale into a single...
View ArticleAzure Database Migration Service and tool updates – Ignite 2018
In mid-July, I blogged about the exciting updates and additions we had made to the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) and our data migration tools. Since that time, we have noticed increased usage...
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