Category Archives: Cloud
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How To: Install SQL Server on an Azure VM
Leave a commentJanuary 29, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Last month I demonstrated creating an Azure VM with SQL installed using one of the default templates. While this is …
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How to: Create an Azure VM with SQL Server using a default template
1December 14, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
One of the really cool things about the cloud is how quickly you can spin up a new machine to …
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Turn on/off Azure VMs with Powershell
1September 12, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
T-SQL Tuesday has rolled up on us yet again. This month it’s Rob Sewell’s (b/t) turn to host and picked …
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The more things change, the more they stay the same
2April 11, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Koen Verbeeck (b/t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and our topic is The times they are a-changing. In other …
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Increasing and decreasing the performance level of your Azure SQL Database
Leave a commentMarch 29, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
One of the big benefits of Azure, and in fact any of the cloud offerings I’ve seen, is the ability …
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Review of Azure Fundamentals class on Openedx
Leave a commentMarch 8, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
My company has recently adopted a Cloud first attitude. Now that’s different from Microsoft’s Cloud first. Microsoft is putting new …
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Azure quick start
1January 30, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
In case you hadn’t noticed, I love built in help. DBCC HELP, the script button in SSMS, even BOL. Well …
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A detailed view into your Azure resources
Leave a commentJanuary 5, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve been studying Azure recently and came across a really interesting Azure site. resources.azure.com To give you an idea why …
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Azure: Creating a BACPAC from an On-Premises SQL Server Database
1September 13, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
So to start, what’s a BACPAC? Per the Azure documentation When you need to create an archive of an Azure …
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Copying an on-premise Database to an Azure SQL Database
4August 24, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
Continuing my exploration of Azure the next logical step seemed to be copying an on-premise database up to the cloud. …
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