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Beginning SQL Server Database Administration: Key Concepts

Last Update: Jun 24, 2022

Michael Simmons continues his SQL Server journey by reviewing key terms and concepts, along with a primer on SQL Server Management Studio.

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Microsoft Gives Up on Running SQL Server in a Windows Container

Back in 2017, Microsoft had an ambitious plan to run SQL Server in a Windows container. At that time, containers were starting to make big waves in the infrastructure market and Microsoft did not want to be left out of the conversation. The company spun up its SQL Server on Windows Containers beta program and…

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Ensuring Disaster Recoverability for Your Legacy SQL Server 2008/R2

Protecting core infrastructure components like SQL Server is certainly one of the database professional first priorities. However, for those businesses still running SQL Server 2008/R2, that’s become a problem.

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Moving SQL Databases to the Cloud with the Data Migration Assistant

If you are moving SQL database instances into Azure, you’ll want to look at the updated Database Migration Assistant from Microsoft. The assistant can move your data, and give you an assessment of potential issues.

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Disaster Recovery Features in Windows Server 2019

Microsoft has released a new version of SharePoint and with it comes a couple new features to help you recover from an outage.

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Container Availability and Disaster Recovery

Looking to dive into containers as a possible recovery option but don’t know where to start? Mike Otey has you covered.

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SQL Server 2019 Now Available In Public Preview

Microsoft is making available the next generation of on-premises SQL Server software but be aware that this is a preview and not the final package.

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Multiple Ways to Backup SQL Server in an Azure VM

Aidan dives into several ways that you can back up SQL Server which is running in an Azure virtual machine.

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The Hybrid Cloud Database Benefits

If you haven’t moved to a hybrid cloud scenario, you should consider these benefits as there are many reasons to upgrade your environment.

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Extending Your On-Premise databases to the Hybrid Cloud with SQL Server Stretch Databases

See how SQL Server Stretch Databases can extend your data to the hybrid cloud and it is easy to configure too.

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