SQLCAT @PASS Summit 2017
Are you coming to the PASS Summit 2017 in Seattle? SQLCAT will be in full force at the PASS Summit 2017, and we will also bring along our colleagues from the broader AzureCAT team, including the newly...
View ArticleRecent Updates to setting up SQL Server Availability Groups in Azure VM with...
Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, Kun Cheng This blog is an extension to the one that was published in February 2017 . In these eight months there has been some notable improvements to AAD Domain Services...
View ArticleSQL Server VLDB in Azure: DBA Tasks Made Simple
Reviewed by: Rajesh Setlem, Mike Weiner, Xiaochen Wu With thanks to Joey D’Antoni (blog) for asking a great question that prompted this article. As any experienced DBA knows, supporting a very large...
View ArticleAzure SQL DB Managed Instance – sp_readmierrorlog
Reviewed by: Kun Cheng, Borko Novakovic, Arvind Shyamsundar, Mike Weiner Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a new offering that provides an instance-based SQL PaaS service in Azure. If you are not...
View ArticleCPU and Memory Allocation on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Reviewed By: Ajay Kalhan, Borko Novakovic, Drazen Sumic, Branislav Uzelac In the current Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (MI) preview, when customers create a new instance, they can allocate a...
View ArticleTurbo boost data loads from Spark using SQL Spark connector
Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, Xiaochen Wu Apache Spark is a distributed processing framework commonly found in big data environments. Spark is often used to transform, manipulate, and aggregate data....
View ArticleDataCAT team at Data Platform Summit 2018
Team members from Microsoft AzureCAT (a.k.a. DataCAT / SQLCAT) will be presenting a full-day pre-conference on “Building A Scalable Data Architecture In Azure” at the upcoming DPS 2018 conference in...
View ArticleStorage performance best practices and considerations for Azure SQL DB...
Reviewed by: Kun Cheng, Borko Novakovic, Jovan Popovic, Denzil Ribeiro, Rajesh Setlem, Arvind Shyamsundar, Branislav Uzelac In this article, we describe database storage architecture on Azure SQL...
View ArticleReal-time performance monitoring for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
This article was co-authored by Dimitri Furman and Denzil Ribeiro Reviewed by: Danimir Ljepava, Borko Novakovic, Jovan Popovic, Rajesh Setlem, Mike Weiner Introduction In our ongoing engagements with...
View ArticleSQLCAT at PASS Summit 2018
This week in Seattle, PASS Summit 2018 will be happening for the twentieth time. As for many years before, the SQLCAT (a.k.a. DataCAT) team will be at the conference. This year, we will present three...
View Article