You can create and schedule elastic jobs that periodically run against one or many Azure SQL databases. The jobs run Transact-SQL (T-SQL) queries and perform maintenance tasks. You can define target ...

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

This article provides an overview of the failover group feature with best practices and recommendations to use with Azure SQL Managed Instance. The failover groups feature allows you to manage the ...

Creates a relational index on a table or view. Also called a rowstore index because it is either a clustered or nonclustered B-tree index. You can create a rowstore index before there is data in the ...

Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

One of the advantages of the cloud is scale. We don’t call the big three cloud platforms hyperscale for nothing; they have massive data centers all around the world with millions of servers that can ...