This week we have been working on a support case where our customer had the following message 50006: Error the database type is not understood by the data reader when exporting using SQL Server Manag...

Environment Overview  Recently, I worked on a case where our customer encountered an issue during the deployment of an Elastic Job Agent (EJA) and a Private Endpoint (PEP) using a Bicep deployment ...

The Azure SQL Auditing feature is used to track database events and writes them to an audit log in your Azure storage account, Log Analytics workspace, or Event Hubs.   For those who are interest...

We recently worked on a support case where a customer was trying to import a BACPAC file, generated on a different server and subscription, into their Azure SQL Database. The process kept failing wit...

Managed Instance diagnostic events do not support sending deadlock information to Log Analytics. However, through auditing, it's possible to query failed queries along with their reported error messa...

  In this blog article, we will cover how we can use customer Azure policy to prevent users from changing the Azure SQL database connections policy. Azure SQL database has three options for the c...

1-Requirements 2-Considerations 3-Update statistics 4-Rebuild indexes 5-Missing indexes 6-More information    Requirements Azure SQL Database SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)  ...

We worked on a service request that our customer trying to enable their Python application, hosted on Azure App Service, to connect securely to Azure SQL Database using a user-assigned managed identi...

While working on a recent service request, we helped a customer troubleshoot intermittent connection and authentication failures when accessing Azure SQL Database using Active Directory (Entra ID) au...