Azure Arc Data Services - Data Saturday #14 - Oslo 2021
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Data Saturday #14 – Oslo 2021 – Introduction into Azure Arc Data Services

Today the time had come – I was finally able to speak at Data Saturday (formerly SQLSaturday) in Oslo … that was finally not due to the organizers but rather to me or the pandemic, since I hadn’t dared to give lectures until 2020 Keeping English, I hadn’t submitted any sessions for Oslo either. I…

Data Geeks Saturday - South Florida - Bjoern Peters - Change your skills - from an onpremise DBA to a cloud DBA
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South Florida Data Geeks Saturday 2021

Exploring the Data Geeks Community in South Florida On a warm and inviting Saturday, I delivered another presentation, this time in beautiful South Florida, to the Data Geeks community. This event marked the eleventh year of their “SQL Saturday,” drawing around 700 in-person participants passionate about all things related to the Microsoft Data Platform. These…

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Azure SQL Database – General Overview – Refresh Part 1

I see the other contributions as a personal refresh of my knowledge of the Azure SQL Database and all its numerous features. After a long time, it was necessary to deal with it in detail again and show my own experience with learning that “writing down” helps remember the content and essential points. So I’ll just…

DBCC 2021 – Die Data Blaster Community Conference
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SQL Server High Availability – DBCC 2021 – Part 1

Any one of my customers has asked, or should have asked, “do I need a certain level of high availability for my SQL server or one of my SQL servers?” Regrettably, these deliberations often come to a halt when it comes to the budget… Naturally, such HA-solutions are more expensive, and depending on the solution…

Azure SQL VM ohne Storage Configuration
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Azure SQL VM – no possibility to configure the disk usage

A customer had asked me the last few days to help him optimize a SQL server on an Azure VM. The customer always had slight performance problems with this SQL server, so he first asked the application manufacturer or supervisor, but they didn’t want to or could help. The only answer they received was that…