Here are some news, videos, tips, and links the Procure SQL team would like to share!

Near Zero Downtime Migrations

Near zero downtime migrations are why Azure SQL Databases can be a subscriber for transactional replication.

Habits of Effective Data Leaders

How many of these seven effective habits do you see at your job?

AI Coming for Your Job?

Maybe. Regardless, let your skills, quality of work, and service to others define who you are.

Air Canada Chatbot Lawsuit

Air Canada lost a lawsuit claiming the airline should not be liable for their chatbot’s misleading information.

Testing and Bug Fixes

We hope this is different from how you do testing or bug fixes.

Offload Workload to Availability Group Replicas

Learn about temporary statistics on your secondary replicas. See how to enable Query Store for secondary replicas with SQL Server 2022.

Serverless for Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database

These are things to know before you jump into Serverless for Hyperscale. Serverless auto-pausing and resuming in Hyperscale are not currently available. The provisioned compute tier may be less expensive if CPU or memory usage is high enough and sustained long enough.

Free Azure and SQL Server Training in Austin, Texas!

On Saturday, March 9, 2024, SQL Saturday will be coming to Austin, Texas. This is a free training day around SQL Server, Azure, and the Microsoft Data Platform. If you would like lunch to be provided, it’s $20. We will also have two all-day deep dive training classes on performance tuning and Microsoft Analytics on Friday, March 8, 2024, for $125.

Need a Remote DBA or Data Architect?

Have you got questions? Need some help? Are you curious to know the cost of procuring a Remote Data Architect?