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November 4, 2023

Check Always On Availability Groups Health

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

sys.dm_hadr_database_replica_states

Tags CloudComputing

April 2, 2019

Azure Powershell - Delete all files in Storage Files Share

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Remove-AzureStorageFile

Tags CloudComputing

November 20, 2018

Migrating a Giant to the Cloud

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing

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October 27, 2018

Use Powershell to monitor S2D(Storage Spaces Direct) Performance

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Get-StorageSubSystem, Get-StorageHealthReport

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October 19, 2018

Use Azure Function with Timer Trigger to call an Azure SQL Database Stored Procedure

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Azure Functions is a solution for easily running small pieces of code, or "functions," in the cloud...

Tags CloudComputing

June 5, 2018

Get Azure API Versions for Web and Azure SQL Database

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Get-AzureRmResourceProvider

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April 28, 2018

Check Allocation Unit Size for Disks in a SQL Server System

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

DISKPART

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April 17, 2018

Disk Performance on Azure Virtual Machine - storflt driver

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Virtual machines (VMs) that are running Windows Server 2012 R2

Tags CloudComputing

April 10, 2018

The term 'New-AzureStorageContext' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

SQLPS.exe, New-AzureStorageContext, Get-AzureStorageBlob, Remove-AzureStorageBlob

Tags CloudComputing

March 23, 2018

Using Microsoft Data Migration Assistant and Extended Events to capture any Deprecated Features

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

sqlserver.deprecation_announcement, sqlserver.deprecation_final_support

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February 2, 2018

Always On: The availability replica manager is going offline because the local Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) node has lost quorum.

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

SQL Server Error Log, Failover Cluster Cluster Events, Cluster.log

Tags CloudComputing

January 22, 2018

The request limit for the database is 400 and has been reached

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Azure SQL Database resource limits

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December 12, 2017

Replacement of Remote Transactional Replication Distributor in an Always On Setup

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Enter Short Description Here

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December 11, 2017

Huge Transaction Log File with Always-ON Availability Group Database in SQL Server 2016 STD

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

log_reuse_wait_desc, DBCC sqlperf(logspace), DBCC LogInfo

Tags CloudComputing

December 9, 2017

"The specified network name is no longer available" error while connecting On Premise Applications to Azure Always On Listener.

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

MTU Setting

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December 2, 2017

Troubleshooting Azure VM SQL Server Database Mail using SmtpClient class, PowerShell and SendGrid

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

System.Net.Mail.MailAddress, System.net.mail.smtpclient, System.Net.NetworkCredential

Tags CloudComputing

August 29, 2017

Speeding up SQL Server Database Restores

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Multi-Threaded Approach, Database Instant File Initialization, Azure VM SSDs

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August 24, 2017

Automate Azure SQL Database Backup to Azure Virtual Machine running SQL Server

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

SqlPackage.exe - /export, /import

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June 2, 2017

Use AzCopy to copy SQL Server Backup Files to Azure Blob Storage

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Within our Microsoft Cloud Environment we use a 3rd party product from Red-Gate - SQL Backup - to perform SQL Server backups for our both our System...

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May 31, 2017

How to Monitor Log Shipping in SQL Server

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Log shipping allows you to automatically send transaction log backups from a PRI DB on a PRI Server to one or more SEC DB(s) on separate SEC Server(s)...

Tags CloudComputing

March 26, 2017

Microsoft Azure - copy all content from one storage container to another

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Get-AzureStorageBlob, Start-CopyAzureStorageBlob, Get-AzureStorageBlobCopyState

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February 17, 2017

Azure Virtual Machines running SQL Server 2016 STD AlwaysON Availability Groups w/ Transactional Replication

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

A High Availability & Disaster Recovery Solution

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February 7, 2017

New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment - Error - InvalidTemplateDeployment

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

The template deployment is not valid according to the validation procedure. Deploying template using PowerShell script failed.

Tags CloudComputing

December 1, 2016

Find out when an AlwaysOn Availability Group Failover occurred

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

sys.dm_xe_sessions, sys.dm_xe_session_targets, sys.messages

Tags CloudComputing

November 19, 2016

Using Extended Events to Monitor Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Capture DDL, Capture Availability Replica State Changes, Capture Total Events Captured

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November 10, 2016

View Subscription Usage and Quotas in Microsoft Azure Cloud

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Azure Portal, ARM, Powershell

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October 6, 2016

Azure SQL Database Geo-Replication Logins and Users Configuration

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Create Login, Create User, sys.sql_logins , sys.database_principals

Tags CloudComputing

October 3, 2016

Azure SQL Database Geo-Replication - Initiate a Failover using T-SQL

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Alter Database FAILOVER, sys.dm_geo_replication_link_status, sys.dm_operation_status

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October 3, 2016

Failed to update database because the database is read-only. Error Code 3096.

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Transactional Replication, Distribution Database, MSrepl_errors table, Set-AzureRmSqlDatabaseSecondary

Tags CloudComputing

September 26, 2016

Azure SQL Database Geo-Replication - Initiate a Failover using PowerShell

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Set-AzureRmSqlDatabaseSecondary, Get-AzureRmSqlDatabaseReplicationLink

Tags CloudComputing

September 17, 2016

Azure Powershell Create a new Virtual Machine with 1 VNET and 2 SUBNETS

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

New-AzureRmVM, New-AzureRmVMConfig, New-AzureRmNetworkInterface

Tags CloudComputing

September 6, 2016

Powershell Azure Virtual Machine Alerts with Webhook & Logic App

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Loop all Resource Groups & Virtual Machines in a Subscription

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September 3, 2016

Use an Azure Logic App for custom processing of a Virtual Machine CPU alert

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Azure Logic App, Webhook URI, Virtual Machine Alert, Azure SQL Database

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August 24, 2016

Create Alert for Azure SQL Database using Powershell Code

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Add-AzureRmMetricAlertRule

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July 27, 2016

How to Migrate an On-Premise SQL Server Database into Microsoft Azure As-A-Service (PAAS)

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Export Data-tier Application, AzCopy Tool, Microsoft Azure Portal Import Database

Tags CloudComputing

July 11, 2016

Microsoft Azure SQL Database Copy Operation

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Start-AzureSqlDatabaseCopy, Get-AzureSqlDatabaseOperation, Monitor Progress

Tags CloudComputing

July 3, 2016

Create Microsoft Azure SQL Database using Powershell

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Module AzureRM.sql, New-AzureRmSqlServer, New-AzureRmSqlDatabase, SAAS

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June 20, 2016

Cross-Database Queries in Azure SQL Databases

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Extension in the DDL for external data sources and external tables

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June 15, 2016

Delete Microsoft Azure Storage Blob(s) based on specified retention period

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Microsoft SQL Server .bak & log files

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May 31, 2016

Powershell - Azure Traffic Manager Enable and Disable Endpoints

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Azure Traffic Manager Cmdlets

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May 3, 2016

Powershell - Automate Get Azure Traffic Manager EndPoints Monitor Status

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Powershell.exe, Batch File, Fiddler, Alerting, Logging

Tags CloudComputing

April 27, 2016

Copy files from On-Prem to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Microsoft Azure Storage Tools, AzCopy.exe

Tags CloudComputing

April 26, 2016

Kudu - a service which powers Azure Web Apps

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Azure, Web Apps, IIS, Debug & Diagnostics Console

Tags CloudComputing

April 1, 2016

Powershell - Get Azure Traffic Manager EndPoints Monitor Status

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Azure REST API, Log to file

Tags CloudComputing

March 16, 2016

Get Azure Traffic Manager EndPoints Monitor Status

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Powershell, Chrome Postman

Tags CloudComputing

March 6, 2016

Azure Extended Events session return ShowPlan XML

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

query_post_execution_showplan

Tags CloudComputing

December 14, 2015

Move Azure SQL Server and Azure SQL Database to a new Resource Group

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Powershell Script

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December 10, 2015

Azure BizTalk Hybrid Connections

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Hybrid Connection Manager, Listener, Ports

Tags CloudComputing

November 26, 2015

Azure SQL Database Scale Operation failed

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Using Azure SQL Database Geo-Replication Two-Node Configuration

Tags CloudComputing

November 7, 2015

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Service as a backup destination

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Requires Storage Account, Container & Credential

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September 27, 2015

Deploy Azure Resources with JSON Template

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Using Visual Studio 2015, create a new Azure Resource Project and choose a Resource Template...

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August 18, 2015

Microsoft Azure Data Factory

by BF (Principal Consultant; Architecture; Engineering)

Ingest and Prepare, Transform and Analyze, Publish and Consume, Monitor and Manage

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