Microsoft’sSQL Assessment APIprovides a mechanism to evaluate the database configuration of SQL Server for best practices. The API is delivered with a ruleset containing best practice rules suggested by the SQL Server Team. While this ruleset is enhanced with the release of new versions, the ...
Following safe deployment practices, Azure SQL Database generally doesn't update paired regions at the same time. However, it isn't possible to predict which region will be upgraded first, so the order of deployment isn't guaranteed. Sometimes, your primary server is upgraded first, and sometim...
Rules based enforcement Fatal action guard: guarding against inadvertent execution of code that may damage or destroy data in SQL Server How to execute an unattended best practices review against a database How to create custom health checks in SQL Server instances...
The new term called DBaaS (Database as a Service) is being widely recognized nowadays, this denomination provides a flexible, scalable and on-demand platform that is oriented toward self-service and easy management delivering, principally in terms of provisioning a business own environment. Is not...
unit testing and unit testing a build created on-commit, is simply that the unit tests will be run against a fully re-constituted QA database, vs Development. The previous article in this series isSQL Server database continuous integration (CI) Best practices...
Applies to: Azure SQL Database Important SQL Data Sync will be retired on 30 September 2027. Consider migrating to alternative data replication/synchronization solutions. This article describes best practices for Azure SQL Data Sync. For an overview of SQL Data Sync, see What is SQL Data Sync ...
Ensure a successful SQL Server database creation with best practices. Tailor settings for performance, security, and recovery. Learn key considerations here.
Learn about best practices of loading data to Azure SQL Database, how to efficiently utilize log generation rate, and various techniques to efficiently load data into Azure SQL Database in this episode of Data Exposed with Denzil Ribeiro. ...
SQL best practices: a brief guide to writing better SQL queries.This article covers some best practices for writing SQL queries for data analysts and data scientists. Most of our discussion will concern SQL in general, but we’ll include some notes on features specific to Metabase that make ...
Monitor & enforce best practices by using policy-based management Asymmetric Keys Encryption Strength Backup Files On Separate Devices from the Database Files Check Disk Input & Output Subsystem for I/O Delay Problems Check Disk Input-Output Subsystem for Read Retry Problems ...