Azure Archives • Marcin Gminski

Rapid SQL Server test instances with Docker and Azure

September 1, 2020 by Marcin Gminski

As a DBA, developer, and more importantly the creator of SQLWATCH.IO, I need the ability to rapidly deploy and test different SQL Server configurations or test different upgrade variations from one version of SQLWATCH to another. This is quite laborious, time-consuming tasks as I either have to build a new SQL

Move data to Azure Archive Storage using PowerShell

July 14, 2020 by Marcin Gminski

Concept You may have come across a term multi-tiered storage. This means, that the storage solution has multiple arrays, fast and expensive and slow but cheap. Files accessed very frequently are stored on very fast SSD disks, files accessed less frequently are stored on the much cheaper but much slower