Over the last decade, I’ve rarely met a data professional whose organization wasn’t experiencing data growth and making more demands of their data. We build and deploy new applications faster than we retire old ones, and new data is accumulating dramatically faster on our existing systems than our ability to decide to delete older... Read more
There’s no doubt the cloud is having a big impact on the nature and make-up of SQL Server estates. The 2021 State of Database DevOps report from Redgate, for example, showed that 58% of organizations now use the cloud either wholly or in combination with on-premises servers, compared to 46% in the same report... Read more
SQL Monitor v11.1 now provides full monitoring support for Azure SQL Managed Instances, the goal being to provide a monitoring service that is as consistent as is technically possible to what SQL Monitor offers for 'on-premises' servers. Read more