Hosted cloud databases make a lot of administrative tasks easier, or take care of them for you altogether.
But here are three things that I’ve found a little too easy to forget about Azure SQL Database.
Dear SQL DBA, What do you say to a SAN admin when you think that the billion dollar SAN *may* be the bottleneck and you just want to look into it. What are the technical things I need to say to make them believe there might be something to my questions?
Recently, I was thinking about nonclustered indexes in SQL Server, and how included columns are stored.
Is SQL Server smart enough to optimize the storage for small indexes with includes? Find out in this free seven minute video.
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