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How to approach performance tuning your SQL query

A question that I have been asked several times is how to go about performance tuning with your query. Let’s use a simple scenario here: a colleague comes to you and says, “I’ve written this query and its taking forever! Can you help?” How should you respond? Let me…

Are All Azure Virtual Machine Cores Created Equal?

A series, D series, DS series, F Series, G series, H Series. Azure offers many different types of SKUs at different price points. As you start to leverage the cloud more and more, you will sooner or later take performance and pricing into consideration if you haven’t…

Failed to start virtual machine ‘vm-name’. Error: Handler ‘Microsoft.Azure.Security.Monitoring’ has reported failure for VM Extension ‘Monitoring’ with terminal error code ‘1007’

While I was changing diagnostics storage settings in Azure, I started getting error messages for some of my VMs while de-allocating them or powering them up and down. Failed to start virtual machine ‘vm-name’. Error: Handler ‘Microsoft.Azure.Security.Monitoring’ has…

Microsoft Azure Advisor Enters Preview

Last month Microsoft released the preview for Azure Advisor in the resource manager portal. The app essentially scans your Azure subscription resources and looks for potential performance/security issues and recommendations. Below is screenshot of the application…

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