Introduction Mainframe/Midrange data is often stored in fixed-length format, where each record has a predetermined length, or variable-length format, where each record’s length may vary. The data i...

Introduction As enterprises migrate mission-critical workloads from heterogeneous databases like Oracle to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, managing large datasets while ensuring comp...

Our team has a blog on this site which describes the process of moving an Azure SQL DB from one tenant to another. When doing this, the Entra (was AAD) logins and users defined in the database will n...

In a dynamic enterprise environment, organizations often need to restructure their Azure resources for better cost allocation, governance, or compliance. For IT teams managing multiple SQL Server ins...

Introduction Text-search is an essential aspect of contemporary data management, enabling users to effectively extract information from natural-language text. This technology allows for the retriev...

Introduction Comparing strings in SQL is generally intuitive, but there are scenarios where the results can be unexpected, leading to performance issues, especially when we get into Unicode. Norm...

Introduction Query store (QDS) is great at collecting performance tuning telemetry, and to achieve this it uses resources including disk and memory. While the best practices documentation looks at ...

Deploying a SQL VM using a marketplace image can sometimes lead to deployment failures, particularly when the selected size for the tempdb exceeds the capacity of the Windows OS disk. This issue aris...

Transferring an Azure SQL Database between tenants involves several steps, but it can be done efficiently without changing your connection strings. There are several reasons why an organization might...

  Why Post-Migration Optimization Matters  For customers migrating from Oracle to Azure SQL Databases, understanding Azure SQL optimization techniques can make a significant difference in overall...