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	Podcast:		voiceofthedba's podcast
	Episode:		Pride in Azure SQL Database
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:03:33
	Publish Date:		2018-05-06 20:00:00
	Description:		There's a series on Azure SQL Database from Jovan Popovic on the SQL Server Database Engine Blog. Jovan has written posts on why database management is easier, the scalability of the platform, and a great one that claims the database engine can't die. I don't know that I quite believe that, especially as the guarentee is 99.99% availability. I'd expect 100% if you really think the engine can't die on you. In any case, Jovan clearly has some pride in his work on Azure SQL Database. What I think is interesting in the post on the ever living engine is this sentence: "Azure automatically handles patching, backups, replication, failure detection, underlying potential hardware, software or network failures, deploying bug fixes, failovers, database upgrades and other maintenance tasks." This notes that all of these operations are completed in less than 0.01% of the database life, hence the 99.99% guarentee. While that's not 0, it's close, and more importantly, this is something that to which DBAs ought to pay attention. Read the rest of Pride in Azure SQL Database
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