SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a feature that was introduced in SQL Server 2008 (and is also available for Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Parallel Data Warehouse) with the purpose of encrypting your data at rest. That is to ensure your database is encrypted at the file level.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements. Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. When looking at backups, I check for recovery model and the current history of backups for each database. Azure SQL Database and Azure Managed Instance have managed backups.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. The L3 cache size is 64MB. GHz Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processors that Microsoft uses for many of their Azure VM series. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Azure Lsv2 Details.

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