Microsoft Azure is fast becoming the datacentre of choice for SQL Server workloads, and it's easy to see why. With Azure SQL Database we get a huge range of databases offering many performance levels (DTUs) that will serve most workloads. Easy provisioning and usage has made Azure SQL Database one of the most popular services in Azure. I have made a little checklist of features that many of our customers have considered when taking their on-premises SQL Server workloads to A

This post was originally published to Martynas' personal cloud blog MagicMarty.eu. You can read it here. Azure provides easy way to deploy Operations Management Suite (OMS) agents on Azure VMs. All you need to do is to navigate to Log Analytics blade, choose Virtual Machines from Data Sources and select which VMs you want to add to OMS workspace by clicking Connect on the VM. But what if you have hundreds or even thousands of VMs running on Azure? This is not going to be an e

Hosting your SQL Server databases in Azure has to be one the biggest success stories of Microsoft's cloud platform. Currently there are in excess of 1.7 million instances of Azure SQL Database, Microsoft's Platform-as-a-Service offering. Microsoft also allow you to host your SQL Server databases using Infrastructure-as-a-Service, or SQL-in-a-VM, both of which are viable options for business. However, one of the most common things we get asked when talking to customers about t