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Monitoring Azure Analysis Services with Log Analytics and Power BI
How do you monitor Azure Analysis Services? How many users are connected and who are they? These are great questions to understand around your AAS environment. While metric data is exposed via the...
View ArticleMigrating Symmetric Keys Between SQL 2016 and SQL 2017/Azure
There has been a recent discussion about migrating symmetric keys between instances and version of SQL Server. It doesn't seem to be a widely known process and there have been some changes between...
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MSDTC Supported Configurations
The MSDTC Configuration Conundrum MSDTC configuration is not as straight forward as you might think. It's a different choice if you are using a local MSDTC, clustered MSDTC, on-premises, Azure,...
View ArticleRead-Scale Availability Group Setup
What is a Read-Scale Availability Group? A Read-Scale Availability Group is a Clusterless Availability Group. It's sole purpose and design is to scale out a read workload. More importantly is what it...
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Domain Independent Cluster and Availability Group
What is a Domain Independent Cluster? Did you know that you can have a Windows cluster that is a domain independent cluster and run a SQL Server Availability Group on top of it? The technology has...
View ArticleConfigure SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance on Azure Virtual Machines with...
Configure SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance If you are running a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance on premises and looking to migrate to Azure, you might be a little intimidated. This...
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AlwaysOn Availability Groups unable to query against readable secondary...
Recently a customer reported an interesting issue, while querying against recently added readable replica, SELECT statement is shown as suspended and session is shown as waiting on...
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FileStream Backup and Restore
I have been asked to provide some information on best practice for SQL Server Backup and Restore with Filestream Databases. For Backup. The method is exactly the same like you do for your regular...
View ArticleAutomate Azure VM Storage
The Problem One of the best things about Azure, and the cloud in general, is we can automate most anything, and we are going to look at how to automate Azure VM Storage. This allows us to come up with...
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Physical_Device_Name Not Updated On Restore
The Problem You restored a database on top of an existing database to refresh your development environment, but the Physical_Device_Name in msdb..backupmediafamily does not get updated. That seems...
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