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AMD EPYC Processors in Azure Virtual Machines

SQL Performance

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. GHz Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processors that Microsoft uses for many of their Azure VM series. Azure Lsv2 Details. Table 1: Lsv2 Series Azure VM Specifications.

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Common SQL Server Mishaps

SQL Performance

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. I always check backups first when looking at a new system. When looking at backups, I check for recovery model and the current history of backups for each database.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

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SQL Server Mysteries: The Case of TDE and Permanent Tempdb Encryption

SQL Server According to Bob

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 On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. The Back Story.

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The SQL Server Basic Installer: Just Install It!

SQL Server According to Bob

And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. How do I know this?

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Introduction to Wait Statistics

SQL Performance

You can also get wait statistics using the Server Reports add-in to the new Azure Data Studio tool, and using Query Store from SQL Server 2017 onwards. Someone complained about a sluggish system yesterday afternoon or a report that timed out last Tuesday? Waits Resources. You can get to the library at [link]. No problem.

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