Microsoft Azure hack for social justice
An invitation to Microsoft’s social justice hackathon and ideas for technology projects that can support justice.
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How To Fix High DTU Usage on Specific Query
Question I have a query that runs every few seconds on a Microsoft SQL Azure Database. It is from a web job that checks if there are actions that need to be done based on rows in a specific table (its a queueing table). Based on the image attached, does …
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Webinar: Azure SQL DB Managed Instance--A New Path to the Cloud
On October 2, 2018 at 11PM EDT, I’ll be joined by John Q. Martin (blog|twitter) for a webinar on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. To sign up, register here. You can access the recording of the session here. Follow-up Q & A from the live session can be …
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What the heck is a DTU?
In this post, I explain Azure SQL Database DTUs (Database Transaction Units) and the differences you might see between the documentation and practical usage.
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Building a Twitter-bot RSS Aggregator
I hate RSS readers I love my new bot For some reason, about once a year, I go hunting for a new RSS reader so I can keep track of blogs that I like to read. It’s always the same process: Dig through reviews to find an app that I think I will love. Come up with …
Continue readingCannot restore azure database to local due to missing master key
Question I create a bacpac from azure and restore to my local on-prem server. However, it throws an error like “Please create a master key in the database or open the master key in the session before performing this operation”. The reason is one of the column …
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TSQL Tuesday #85: Backup + Recovery + ☁️
It’s T-SQL Tuesday, the blog party that SQL Server expert Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) started. This month’s episode is hosted by Kenneth Fisher (blog| twitter). The topic: Backup & Recovery ## Your backups are my bread & butter Backup & recovery are a DBA's …
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