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Database migration methods

When thinking about migration the most common issue is downtime. There are some methods that require downtime like backup/restore or

SqlPackage is a command-line utility that you can use for exporting and importing operations in both on-premises SQL Server databases

SQL Operations Studio is a free tool that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, for managing SQL Server databases. I

Stretch Database is a feature of SQL Server where data can be split between on-premises storage and cloud storage. With

All system databases, except the resource database, can be moved to new locations to help balance I/O load. To move

Parallelism refers to multiple processors cooperating to execute a single query at the same time. Parallel execution involves the overhead

Amazon has a Powershell module to manage the the principal services available. I’ve been working with EC2, RDS and S3

SQL Server retrieves threads from Windows. The SQL Server configuration setting max worker threads (set at instance level) determines how

SQL Server stores data in heaps or b-tree structures. Heaps are unordered set and balanced trees are ordered by their

In this post I’m going to talk about locks on SQL Server. Locks are necessary, they are used in all