Scale action groups and suppress notifications for Azure alerts

The action rules feature for Azure Monitor, available in preview, allows you to define actions for your alerts at scale, and allows you to suppress alerts for scenarios such as maintenance windows.

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Thanks for 10 years and welcome to a new chapter in SQL innovation

Tomorrow, July 9, 2019, marks the end of extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. These releases transformed the database industry, with all the core components of a database platform built-in at a fraction of the cost of other databases.

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Azure Data Box Heavy is now generally available

Our customers continue to use the Azure Data Box family to move massive amounts of data into Azure. One of the regular requests that we receive is for a larger capacity option that retains the simplicity, security, and speed of the original Data Box.

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Importing Apps to set up Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) for Configuration Manager

Hi, my name is Taj Mohammed, I am a PFE working in the US primarily with SCCM. As a result of a recent engagement I thought I would document and share the process required to properly create/register Applications in the Azure Portal. Then import them s… Continue reading Importing Apps to set up Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) for Configuration Manager

Sending refresh notifications to others

Announcing support for sending refresh failure notifications to others in addition to the dataset owner. This feature enables dataset owners to monitor data refreshes more reliably and more effortlessly than before. It can help to ensure refresh issues get noticed and addressed in a timely manner.

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Lesson Learned #96: Updating a non-clustered index in a partitioned table.

Today, I worked on a service request that our customer has implemented a process to rebuild the indexes and after it they update the statistics. In this rebuild process I found that they have some partitioned table but they are rebuild the en… Continue reading Lesson Learned #96: Updating a non-clustered index in a partitioned table.

Lesson Learned #95: Updating the auto-created and user defined statistics only

Today, I worked on a service request that our customer has implemented a process to rebuild the indexes and after it they update the statistics. As this process is taking too much time, they want to reduce the time, and, I found an important … Continue reading Lesson Learned #95: Updating the auto-created and user defined statistics only

Best Practices for Unified Service Desk Deployment and Upgrade

As a Unified Service Desk administrator, you are tasked with either fresh deployment of Unified Service Desk or on an upgrade of the Unified service Desk client or solution bits, for your organization. For such deployment exercise, it is a necessity that you follow the guidelines to minimize the impact and increase the agent productivity.

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