David Levy

🎉Big News!🎉 I/O Performance Analysis for SQL Server on Azure VMs is now Generally Available (GA)! This powerful Azure portal feature allows you to: - Identify I/O bottlenecks from Azure VM or disk throttling - Analyze storage health with detailed metrics - Optimize performance using actionable insights - Evaluate storage related best practices to help ensure performance and stability With the 'I/O Performance Analysis for SQL Server on Azure VMs' you can say goodbye to the guesswork and get a quick evaluation of your storage health and apply storage best practices! Get precise data on latency, impact levels, and timestamps to ensure your SQL Server workloads run smoothly. Learn more: aka.ms/IO-Analysis #Azure #SQLServer #AzureSQL #AzureSQLVM

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine outperforms AWS by 51% in throughput, 66% in price-performance for transaction processing workloads - offering lower costs and exclusive features in a new price-perf study from GigaOm. Read more in the comparison of SQL Server performance on the latest Azure VMs vs AWS. GigaOm Benchmark: Migrating Windows Server Workloads to Azure v1.0 gigaom.com/report/gigaom-… CxO Decision Brief: Windows Server Datacenter: Azure Edition gigaom.com/report/cxo-dec… #Azure #AzureSQL #SQLServer #GigaOm

Want to master SQL database in #MicrosoftFabric? Join Sukhwant Kaur and @Dave_Levy for a comprehensive full-day workshop at #FabCon on March 29. From data migration to integration to security, you'll learn everything you need to build powerful solutions. buff.ly/3C8tEPB

Experience Azure’s Ebsv5 VMs, perfect for data-intensive operations & mission critical OLTP workloads NVMe-enabled #Ebsv5 VMs offering up to 400K IOPS & 10GBps throughput are now generally available! ✨✨aka.ms/Ebsv5400K #DoubleSprinkles #AzureSQL #AzureSQLVM #SQLServer

Happy to announce that Azure Data Studio 1.47.1 is now available. Read more here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-da… Download and install here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-da…

Excited to announce that the latest release of Azure Data Studio (version 1.47) is now available! It includes some great enhancements to help you get through your day faster. Read more here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server-…

@AndyLeonard One of my all time favorites! In the last few years I've become partial to this version: youtube.com/watch?v=xuwGfy…

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1. AndyLeonard.blog (aka "Andy's memory") to the rescue, again. 2. Clicked obscure link...

Super excited about this brand new sqlcmd quick start that is now available! This quick start shows how to create a new local copy of a database in a container running on your local machine with a single command. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tool…

Our first set of security updates to the Azure DMS FAQ are up. Looking for ideas for the next round of updates. Please reach out with your #Azure #DMS #security questions. #security" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">aka.ms/dms-faq#securi…

Announcing SQL Server 2022 general availability! This newest SQL Server release is the most Azure-enabled version yet, building on its tradition of performance, security, and availability. Learn more: msft.it/6019dauC7 #SQLServer

Query Store hints in SQL Server 2022 is a powerful & easy to use method to shape query plans without changing code, extending the power of #QueryStore. Influence plan behavior & even override other hard-coded statement level hints. #SQLServer #AzureSQL cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2022…

We have the another #SQLServer2022 storage engine blog published! A great improvement for #tempdb scalability with system page latch concurrency enhancements (concurrent GAM & SGAM updates) cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2022… and a lot more to come! #SQLServer #Microsoft #performance

This is what a $820,000 check to NIU got Nebraska.