Latest Blog Articles
Azure SQL Managed Instance simplifies database operations by automating backups for full, differential, and transaction log types—ensuring point-in-time recovery and business continuity. These ba...
May 11, 2025170Views
2likes
1Comment
3 MIN READ
A few days ago, we handled an interesting support case where a customer encountered the following connection error when using sqlcmd to connect to their Azure SQL Database "Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft O...
May 02, 2025118Views
0likes
0Comments
Issue
Your application is intermittently failing with the following error right after adding or dropping Always Encrypted columns while executing INSERT or UPDATE statement.
SQL Error: 206, SQLSt...
Apr 21, 2025124Views
0likes
0Comments
Recently, I worked on a case where user tried to copy the data from the source Azure SQL Database to target Fabric SQL Database through the pipeline using on premise gateway got the following error m...
Mar 25, 2025353Views
0likes
0Comments
3 MIN READ
A few days ago, I was working on a case where a customer reported an unexpected behavior in their application: even after switching the connection policy from Proxy to Redirect, the connections were ...
Mar 12, 2025314Views
0likes
0Comments
Issue
We recently encountered a support case where a customer was getting an error message while trying to restore a bacpac to an Azure SQL DB as the bacpac file was pointing to Prod external data...
Feb 13, 2025226Views
0likes
0Comments

Database Watcher was released in November 2024 and is a managed monitoring solution for databases. It is currently supported only for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance. The setup proc...
Feb 04, 2025302Views
0likes
0Comments
2 MIN READ
Recently, we have been working on a support case where our customer reported the following error message: ERROR com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool - HikariPool-1 - Exception during pool initialization...
Jan 18, 2025317Views
0likes
0Comments
On a recent case, a customer was trying to set up SQL Managed Instance Link to partner with an on premise Always On Availability Group (AG). Using the public documentation will work, but this will on...
Jan 10, 20252.4KViews
0likes
1Comment
Optimized locking is a Database Engine feature introduced in 2023 that drastically reduces lock memory, and the number of locks required for concurrent writes. This is enabled by default for Azur...
Dec 18, 2024660Views
2likes
0Comments
Resources
Tags
- azure sql database145 Topics
- azure sql54 Topics
- performance48 Topics
- Azure SQL DB43 Topics
- Connectivity42 Topics
- azure sql managed instance21 Topics
- azure19 Topics
- powershell14 Topics
- bacpac13 Topics
- Managed Instance13 Topics