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An Expensive Reason To Avoid AGs In Azure

Last Updated August 27, 2017

Always On Availability Groups, Backup and Recovery, CHECKDB and Corruption, Cloud Computing, High Availability, Microsoft Azure, SQL Server

Cash Rules Most people, when they get through paying for Azure, and SQL Server Enterprise Licensing, are left with a hole in their wallet that could only be filled with something that says “Bugatti”, and has a speedometer with an infinity sign at the end. Recently, while working with a client, I found out that…

9 Ways to Lose Your Data

Last Updated February 13, 2017

Brent Ozar

CHECKDB and Corruption, SQL Server

Every time someone tells me, “This database is mission critical – we can’t have data loss or downtime,” I just smile and shake my head. Technology is seriously difficult. To illustrate, here’s a collection of client stories from the last few years: The DBCC CHECKDB job ran every week just like it was supposed to…

How Many Databases Can I Put on One SQL Server?

Last Updated February 9, 2017

Brent Ozar

Architecture, Backup and Recovery, ISV and SaaS Database Design, SQL Server

I’ve seen servers with thousands of databases on a single SQL Server, and it works. Sure, opening the databases list in SQL Server Management Studio is painful, and a lot of third party monitoring tools fall over, but it’s not so bad once you know how to work around these issues. But there’s two issues…