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What Amazon RDS for SQL Server Users Need to Know about Multi-AZ Mirroring

Brent Ozar
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Database Mirroring
9 Comments
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports multi-availability-zone SQL Servers. This means you can have a primary database in one data center, and a secondary replica in another data center. Those Portland folks were always a little bit backwards anyway. When your primary server goes down, OR when the entire AZ goes down, you can fail…
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Auto-Scaling SQL Server Always On Availability Groups with Virtualization

Brent Ozar
Always On Availability Groups, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Virtualization
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8 Comments
Time for a thought exercise. Thought exercises are hard. You’ve got a database application that has bursty and unpredictable loads. Out of nowhere, you’ll suddenly get socked with a large amount of SELECT queries. Due to the way the app is written, you can’t cache the query results – the queries keep changing, and the business…
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Who Needs an Operating System?

Jeremiah Peschka
Cloud Computing
3 Comments
In the 1950s, the global economy saw a tremendous change – container ships revolutionized global commerce. Shipping costs got 36 times cheaper with the introduction of containerization. What if you could reduce operational costs and revolutionize application and database deployment in the same way? Containers to the Future In the last few months, the developer world…
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Success in the Cloud

Jeremiah Peschka
Cloud Computing
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Right now, someone in your company is thinking about moving your operations up into the cloud. If your company is like 95% of companies out there, “the cloud” is really a synonym for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Thinking about a move to AWS is happening across many companies, and it’s not something that you need…
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CorrugatedIron 1.4

Jeremiah Peschka
Cloud Computing
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We’re happy to announce that we’ve released CorrugatedIron 1.4.0. This release contains a large number of bug fixes, new features, and enhancements. That’s right, brand new Riak and .NET straight to you! Get it while it’s hot or keep reading for more details. Riak 1.4 Support CorrugatedIron 1.4.0 brings Riak 1.4.0 feature support including: Index…
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Amazon Web Services Architect Training Recap

Brent Ozar
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Computing, SQL Server
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6 Comments
Going into Amazon Web Services (AWS) architecture training last week, I expected to get whiteboard-level training for project planners, and it met expectations.  We spent time talking about how Amazon’s most popular services fit together and how they can be used to solve our business needs.  Nothing in the training itself was groundbreaking for me – I keep…
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Why I’m at Amazon Architect Training This Week

Brent Ozar
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Architecture, Cloud Computing
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2 Comments
People bring me in when they’re having data problems.  They can’t store data fast enough, they can’t make it reliable enough, they can’t hire people to manage it, etc.  When I’m in the conference room, it’s because there’s a fire in the disco datacenter. You know how it is as a DBA, though – DBA…
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SQL Server RDS

Jeremiah Peschka
Amazon Web Services (AWS), SQL Server
49 Comments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a platform that offers a ton of services ranging from block storage, operating systems, to mail queues, DNS, and caching. When you say “cloud”, a lot of people think of AWS. AWS hosts a variety of businesses, large and small. Unfortunately, you still have to administer and configure your servers.…
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SQL Server Always On Availability Groups in AWS

Jeremiah Peschka
Always On Availability Groups, Cloud Computing
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6 Comments
Many companies are investigating a move into cloud hosting. With the recent release of SQL Server 2012, these very same companies are also looking at a migration to SQL Server 2012 to take advantage of readable secondaries. Combining Amazon Web Services and SQL Server 2012 seems like a perfect match. Unfortunately, there are some gotchas,…
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SQL Azure Frequently Asked Questions

Brent Ozar
Microsoft Azure
42 Comments
On Monday 2/1, SQL Azure goes commercially live.  Microsoft’s charging for service now, and that means it’s officially official. I talk to a lot of enterprise DBAs, project managers, and developers about SQL Server in the cloud.  Here’s some of the questions I get asked most often. What is SQL Azure? SQL Azure is Microsoft’s…
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Playing Around with SQL Azure and SSMS

Brent Ozar
Microsoft Azure
11 Comments
The latest build of SQL Server Management Studio for SQL 2008 R2 includes built-in support for SQL Azure.  The November CTP is still only a feature-complete preview, not a release candidate, so don’t go installing it willy-nilly on your production desktop. To use this, you’ll need a SQL Azure account.  You can register for an…
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Microsoft SQL Azure: The Flat Pack Database

Brent Ozar
Microsoft Azure
8 Comments
Erika's friends call her "Fancy Feast" because she only likes the best things in life. She's got champagne tastes, but we can't afford to buy the best of everything. I recently picked up a coffee table from Ikea, and it got me thinking about SQL Azure. In a perfect world, I'd have on-premise SQL Server for every database. I'd use cutting-edge storage and cluster everything. But this isn't a perfect world...
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