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How to generate alerts for DDL statements on Azure PostgreSQL using Log Analytics

Ricardo_NS_Marques on 05-22-2020 02:44 AM
The example below will show you how you can setup alerts for DDL commands, like CREATE TABLE, on Azure PostgreSql
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Reaching Azure SQL DB connection limits in many ways

FonsecaSergio on 05-15-2020 09:52 AM
When supporting Azure SQL DB Connectivity case we sometimes receive errors message saying that was an Azure SQL DB issue...
1,812

Using Managed Service Identity (MSI) to authenticate on Azure SQL DB

FonsecaSergio on 04-08-2020 05:36 AM
In this article we will explore system-assigned identity one type of Managed Identity
1,185

Tips & Tricks #1: Creating alerts for Azure SQL Managed Instance

Mustafa_Ashour on 04-04-2020 08:29 AM
Azure SQL Analytics collects and visualizes key performance metrics with built-in intelligence for performance troublesh...
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Lesson Learned #127: Using Azure SQL Database Private Link and PowerBI

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 03-25-2020 06:51 PM
Today, I worked on a service request that our customer received an error message connecting from PowerBI to Azure SQL Da...
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Lesson Learned #126:Deny Public Network Access,Allow Azure Services and Private Link in SQL Database

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 03-21-2020 08:46 AM
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-connectivity-settings In the latest days, we received a...
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Lesson Learned #125: Azure Storage Firewall and BCP

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 03-20-2020 12:54 PM
We received some questions from our customers that they want to enable the firewall of their Azure Storage Account that ...
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Lesson Learned #124: Improving the Linked Server connectivity performance using Azure SQL Database

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 03-17-2020 02:02 PM
Today, I've worked on an interesting service request that I would like to share with you. Our customer reported that con...
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Lesson Learned #123: Testing PrivateLink connection time using Azure Database for MySQL and PHP

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 03-12-2020 10:11 AM
Some time ago, I wrote an article about how to improve the connection speed in Azure Database using the best practices. ...
1,020

Lesson Learned #122: Checks to perform on your database before using Data Sync?

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 03-11-2020 01:54 AM
During these last days I've been working with some service requests related with DataSync based on some limitations of t...
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Lesson Learned #121: The transaction log for database 'tempdb' is full due to 'ACTIVE_TRANSACTION'

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 01-27-2020 04:09 AM
We have been working on an issue that our customer reported this error message - The transaction log for database 'tempd...
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Lesson Learned #120: What is the impact of having an Indexed View during a data import process?

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 01-16-2020 10:28 AM
Today, we have been working on an important issue that our customer reported that during a data import process, in this ...
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Lesson Learned #119: What is the query that my stored procedure is running now?

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 01-15-2020 12:18 PM
Today, we have been working on a performance issue where our customer is running a stored procedure but we don't know ex...
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Lesson Learned #118: Having ALTER DATABASE failed because a lock could..after creating a MI database

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 01-13-2020 08:18 AM
Today, we worked on a new service request where our customer tried to modify a parameter of a new database, just a coupl...
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Lesson Learned #117: Testing the connection time using Azure Database for MySQL and PHP

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 12-30-2019 04:25 AM
Today, I worked on a very interesting service request that our customer noticed some milliseconds of difference connecti...
1,257

Lesson Learned #116: Replication Monitor and Azure Manage Instance public endpoint

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 12-20-2019 04:06 PM
I've found that launching replication monitor feature from SQL Server Management Studio connected to Azure Manage Instan...
1,126

Lesson Learned #115: Time-saving in a Managed Instance restore process.

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 12-20-2019 03:48 PM
Today, I found a very interesting trick to reduce the time spent in the restoring process of a database in Managed Insta...
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Lesson Learned #114: Could Row Level Security changes the execution plan of a query?

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 12-02-2019 02:02 PM
Today, I worked on a service request that remember me the impact that we could have using row level security afterwards ...
1,103

AZURE SQL DB AND LOG ANALYTICS BETTER TOGETHER – PART #3 - Query AUDIT data or Who dropped my TABLE?

FonsecaSergio on 11-27-2019 09:37 AM
On Azure SQL DB you can have AUDIT data saved to Storage Account, Log Analytics and Event Hub. Log Analytics will be the...
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Lesson Learned #113: Experimenting with Database Experimentation Assistant tool

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 11-18-2019 12:04 PM
Today, we worked in an interesting service request when our customer is using DEA - Database Experimentation Assistant t...
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Lesson Learned #112: Exporting Azure Database for MySQL to a Blob Storage

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 11-17-2019 04:42 AM
We received multiple questions about how to export databases of Azure Database for MySQL, PostgreSQL or MariaDB to an Az...
587

Lesson Learned #111: Running the Web App backup service for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Jose_Manuel_Jurado on 11-15-2019 10:12 AM
I would like to share my lessons learned working with a customer that wants to use the WebApp backup service for Azure D...
897

Azure SQL DB around the globe and latency - An architecture talk

FonsecaSergio on 11-15-2019 09:45 AM
How to develop globally distributed queries
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Azure Portal - Provide permissions to only one Azure SQL Database

Ricardo_NS_Marques on 11-06-2019 09:44 AM
Scenario: You have a set of user`s that need to access just one Azure SQL database on the Azure Portal. This users shoul...
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Henrik_Staun_Poulsen
in Using Certificates in Azure SQL Database : Backup on 05-18-2020
I'm wondering if the line print 'create certificate MY_Certificate from binary = 'should have been print 'create certificate ''' + @certName + ''' from binary = ' Also the line with CERTPRIVATEKEY, should have printed something, I think.In my case, it does not. The docs states that 3 parameters must...
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FonsecaSergio
in AZURE SQL DB AND LOG ANALYTICS BETTER TOGETHER – PART #3 - Query AUDIT data or Who dropped my TABLE? on 05-07-2020
@balineprem some part of this can be checked on Log Analytics and you can use a tool like Azure SQL Analytics (Preview) at least for SQL and SQL MI. But as Synapse may have its particularities and if you are having issues I recommend opening a Support Case for further investigation and advisory.
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Yochanan_MSFT
in Automating Azure SQL DB index and statistics maintenance using Azure Automation on 05-05-2020
Hi @sreedxc please follow the link at the first line in this article ... it will lead you to the procedure page where you can download the code to create the maintenance procedure. here is the link again for your convenience: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuresqldbsupport/2016/07/03/how-to-maint...
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sreedxc
in Automating Azure SQL DB index and statistics maintenance using Azure Automation on 05-04-2020
i followed the steps and getting error error Couldnt find stored procedure dbo.AzureSQLMaintenance . How to fix this error>
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balineprem
in AZURE SQL DB AND LOG ANALYTICS BETTER TOGETHER – PART #3 - Query AUDIT data or Who dropped my TABLE? on 05-01-2020
Hi @FonsecaSergio ,It's nice to see you through this platform and all the three series of articles are very good. I have one request, could you please let me know is there a way to find the idle sessions (connection to the database persists but no activity since days), long running queries or heavy ...
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