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Dan Taylor

Resolution of a Managed Instance Deployment Issue from the Microsoft Product Group

A few weeks ago, I posted about an issue I had with a cancelled deployment of my managed instance. Today, I want to follow [...]

Dan Taylor August 15, 2018

Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, MySQL, Azure PostgreSQL

Backup Retention for Azure PaaS Database Services

Recently, Pragmatic Works has been on engagements helping our customers to migrate their on-premises databases to the Azure [...]

Dan Taylor August 10, 2018

Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure Managed Instances

Managed Instances Subnet Deployment

In a few previous posts, I’ve discussed Azure Managed Instances. Today I’ll continue that thread with an important [...]

Dan Taylor August 1, 2018

Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure - Know Your Limits

We all have personal capacities and limits that allow us to do something that we want to do every day and most times we know [...]

Dan Taylor July 30, 2018

Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure Managed Instance

Azure Managed Instance Cancelled Deployment

In yesterday’s post, I made an important point that Azure Managed Instance deployments can take some time. It that [...]

Dan Taylor July 17, 2018

Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure Managed Instance

Azure Managed Instance Time to Deploy

I recently did a blog announcing the impending arrival of Azure Managed Instance and couple weeks later it was released in [...]

Dan Taylor July 16, 2018

Azure SQL DW Gen 2_ Adaptive, Concurrency and Scale

Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen 2

Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen 2: Adaptive, Concurrency and Scale

You’ve probably heard of the release of Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen 2. In this post I’d like to talk about 3 exciting [...]

Dan Taylor June 5, 2018

Azure, Azure Every Day

Azure Subscription Cost and Spending

Budgeting is key to any business and we all know that keeping track of our costs and spending is important. Luckily, it’s [...]

Dan Taylor June 4, 2018

Azure, Azure Every Day, Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure SQL Data Warehouse Common Query Issues

In this post, I’d like to discuss some of the common Azure SQL Data Warehouse performance issues I come across personally or [...]

Dan Taylor April 27, 2018

Azure, Microsoft, Azure Every Day, Azure Managed Instance

Azure Managed Instance

Dan Taylor March 23, 2018

High Availability

High Availability - A Bird's Eye View

High Availability, just mentioning these words brings fear to some and delight to others. Gartner describes High [...]

Dan Taylor October 6, 2016

Data Security

Tips on Keeping Your Data Safe

Do you Yahoo? Well if you do, your personal information could now be in the hands of folks up to no good. Yahoo began [...]

Dan Taylor October 4, 2016

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