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Increase data file size to improve HammerDB workload performance on General Purpose Managed Instance

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Aug 26, 2019
The General Purpose tier of Managed Instance uses Azure Premium Storage to store database files. In Azure Premium Storage IO performance depends on the file size. Increasing file size might be an eas...
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