Scenario Background During a recent investigation, a customer reported that SQL Authentication was failing when connecting to an Azure SQL Database geo-secondary replica. The customer confirmed t...

Reaching Lessons Learned #550 is an important milestone for me. However, the value of this series is not only the number of articles published. Each article started with a technical question, an unex...

During an Azure SQL investigation, the available evidence may point to a technically reasonable explanation. For example: A network change may appear to explain a connectivity issue. High CPU...

After working on many Azure SQL support cases, I have learned that the initial service request details are essential, although they may not always provide sufficient information to understand the com...

Overview One of the current limitations of SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric is the lack of support for partition switching. For DBA who use partition switching in SQL Server or Azure SQL Databa...

  Issue An issue was brought to our attention recently where an azure SQL DB was generating an error when the customer was trying to enable database level Auditing. The first error was obser...

What started as a routine customer discussion quickly evolved into a strategic modernization conversation. A service that had quietly synchronized business-critical data for years was approaching ret...

During the analysis of a SQL Server performance case, we observed an interesting statistics update pattern on a large table. Several statistics had recently been updated at different times, while a...

I worked on a service request that our customer has an application works repeatedly with the same Azure resources. I guess that it may be useful to maintain our own persistent inventory instead of re...

Why This Day Matters July 14, 2026 marks the end of Extended Support for SQL Server 2016. After today, organizations running SQL Server 2016 will no longer receive security updates, non-securi...