Problem Statement Customer trying to mograte SQL Server database to Azure SQL Database by restoring a .bak file to a jump server, exporting it to a .bacpac, and importing that .bacpac to Azure SQL ...

When a Microsoft Entra server login is deleted from the logical master database in Azure SQL Database, any login-based database users mapped to that login become orphaned. These orphaned principals s...

Recently, I reviewed a customer case where an application intermittently reported: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The statement did not return a result set. The issue occurred durin...

In one of our support cases, a customer reported higher-than-expected connection times when connecting from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to Azure SQL Database using Microsoft Entra authenticat...

By Tanayankar Chakraborty & Sukhwant Kaur  Issue  A customer recently reported that their Azure App Service intermittently cannot establish a TDS connection to its Microsoft Fabric SQL database w...

Azure SQL Data Sync is a powerful service that enables data synchronization across multiple Azure SQL Databases. Traditionally, Data Sync relied on SQL Authentication, requiring administrators to man...

Azure SQL Data Sync is a powerful service that enables data synchronization across multiple Azure SQL Databases. While synchronization failures are relatively uncommon, one error that administrators ...

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Sync will be retired on September 30, 2027 Introduction One of the most common lessons we've learned while working with customers running distributed applications is that...

An application starts reporting intermittent timeouts when connecting to Azure SQL Database. Some requests succeed, others fail, and a test from a developer’s laptop works perfectly. The database app...

Executive Summary Organizations using Azure SQL Database Long-Term Retention (LTR) backup policies may encounter failures when attempting to disable backup immutability while also specifying an imm...