Author: Pieterbas Nagengast

Kunal Babre joins David Blank-Edelman to discuss the key principles of the Azure Well-Architected Operational Excellence pillar. Learn how to monitor systems and understand operational health and learn how to utilize the Well-Architected Review. ✅Resources: Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework Overview of the Operational Excellence pillar Operational Excellence | Learn Module Azure Well-Architected Review [00:00] Introduction[00:55]

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Are you looking to modernize your on-premises databases to Azure SQL? Join Alexandra Ciortea, Raymond Truong, Wenjing Wang, and Anna Hoffman to understand how you can size your Azure SQL target accordingly, based on the current performance and business requirements. We will walk you through several approaches and models that can suit your needs. [00:40] Introductions[00:58]

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In this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition, Javier Villegas will describe the concept of SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) covering how we can use them for High Availability purposes using Azure Virtual Machines and the different Azure Storage options. Recently introduced in Azure VMs, SQL FCIs allows to easily migrate HA workload from

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Kirill Gavrylyuk, Matias Quaranta, Deborah Chen, and Estefani Arroyo join Scott Hanselman to provide another set of updates for Azure Cosmos DB.  Learn about: using Azure Cosmos DB as a Session State Provider for ASP.NET Core; the latest updates for Azure Cosmos DB free tier; how to optimize cost and performance by scaling the throughput (RU/s) of

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Looking for the next Microsoft Learn modules to complete? Bob Ward, Buck Woody, and Anna Hoffman give you a run-down of Microsoft Learn, the learning paths they’ve launched, and the two new Microsoft Learn modules – Azure SQL IoT and Azure Arc-enabled data services – they’ve been working on that are now live. Start learning

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Steve Michelotti joins Scott Hanselman to show what’s new in Azure Government, which provides a physically separate and network-isolated instance of Azure for U.S. federal, state, and local governments in multiple regions in the United States.  Learn how Azure Government is both the same and different from Azure public cloud. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:38]– What is Azure

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Derek Martin joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Secure Baseline reference implementation from the Azure Architecture Center.  Learn what it is, how it works, and how you can use it to start your production deployment in a secure and compliant manner.  You’ll also learn about the available additions for Payment Card

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Join us to learn more about an upcoming feature in Azure IoT Central that will enable you to build your IoT solution once and onboard multiple tenants into it – we’re calling this feature Organizations. During this session we’ll provide an overview of the feature, its use cases and roadmap, and we’ll wrap it up

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It is important to ensure that your Azure Virtual Machine is meeting the performance and stability standards you have established in your organization. PerfInsights can help identify and report on your Azure SQL VM health and provide references to how administrators can mitigate the risks.   PerfInsights is a self-help diagnostics tool that can be

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As database professionals, we all know how to manage SQL Server Agent jobs using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), TSQL, and PowerShell. With Azure Data Studio and SQL Server Agent extension, we have new tools to create, maintain and manage SQL Agent jobs using Notebook. These are called Notebook Jobs. Once you successfully execute a

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