One of my pet hates attending SQL talks is when the “expert” speaker spends most of the time blabbing on about “install” and “configuration” difficulties they had. It kinda paints a picture that they probably haven’t actually done much with the technology yet. Saying that I thought I would add some notes on problems starting … Continue reading Cannot Start PolyBase Services
Category: SQL Server
I’ve recently been working almost exclusively on projects running SQL Server in Azure (IaaS) and the question came on the best way to handle backup and data protection. We accept that for pretty much all SQL Server based solutions we need to have data and potentially logs backups if RTO is more frequent than about … Continue reading SQL backup to Azure Blob store – a good choice ?