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How Azure SQL DB Hyperscale Works

Brent Ozar
Microsoft Azure
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Microsoft is starting to talk about the internals for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale, their competitor to Amazon Aurora. Aurora took the open source MySQL and PostgreSQL front ends and hooked them up to much more powerful cloud-first storage engines on the back end. Here’s a quick primer on how Microsoft is doing something similar –…
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Updating Paste The Plan to use the Serverless Framework

Richie Rump
Amazon Web Services (AWS), PasteThePlan.com
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I just updated PasteThePlan, and the change you’ll notice first is that we’re using the latest version of Justin Pealing’s html-query-plan. It adds missing index hints, yellow bangs for warnings like implicit conversions and no join predicate, and more. Check out this example plan: PasteThePlan, June 2018 Edition Plus variable line widths for different amounts…
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How to Restore a SQL Server Database into Azure SQL DB Managed Instances Redux

Erik Darling
Managed Instances, Microsoft Azure, SQL Server
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Anything Brent Can Do There’s some things you can do with Managed Instances, and some ways you can look at data that you can’t do elsewhere. For instance, you have the ability to start an restore ASYNC — that means if your session drops, the restore will continue headlessly in the background. There’s nothing about…
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Azure SQL DB Managed Instances: We’re All GUIDs

Erik Darling
Managed Instances, SQL Server
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Six is having problems adjusting to his clone status Some funny things happen when you create databases up in a Managed Instance. For Instance (HEH!), you may expect this to yield some fruitful results, but it Manages (HAH!) to defy logic. Transact-SQL CREATE DATABASE YourMom; SELECT * FROM sys.master_files WHERE name = 'YourMom'; 12345 CREATE DATABASE YourMom; SELECT…
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