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Create SQL Server Login For Always-On Sync
When we deploy a SQL Server Always-On, we MUST create the user logins manually to the secondary replica. This happens because SQL server keeps logins in the Master database which is not syncing. To overcome this problem we need to run some SQL scripts in a certain...
Learn About Reserved VM Instances
Azure reserved virtual machine instances gives the ability to purchase Azure compute resources with up to 43% or more savings for 3-year reservation. Essentially what Microsoft did, was to listen to the customer's needs for less cost and gave it through this service....
About Team Foundations Server (TFS) And Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
In this post we'll talk about VSTS and TFS, we will see what their features are, check the versions and the pricing tiers of this service. What is VSTS ? VSTS is a TFS in the Cloud. For someone who already works with TFS on premise it is not difficult to understand...
Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service -GA
With Azure Kubernetes Service you can create, configure and manage a cluster of VMs that can run containerized apps. Below are all the steps that someone needs to follow to create an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Prerequisites Create Service principal client ID...
Create URL Rewrite rule for IIS web site redirect
In this post we will see that in a few simple steps we can create a URL Rewrite to redirect website traffic from http to https. Prerequisites : IIS 7 or higher URL Rewrite module installed. Download URL Rewrite 2.1 module from here. SSL Certificate installed and...
Few words about RUs (Request Units) in Azure Cosmos DB
In this post, we learn how to measure up Cosmos DB performance, how to monitor this service and finally how we can calculate the consumption. So, performance can be measured in two ways, latency, and throughput. Latency is the waiting time until responding to a given...
Azure SQL Database Service tiers and DTUs
Azure SQL Database is a DaaS (Database As A Service) cloud offering by Microsoft. This service has specific characteristics. Azure is responsible for database common administration tasks, hypervisors, networking, bare metal hardware etc. The users pay according to...
Encrypt Azure Virtual Machine Disks Using Key Vault
Microsoft provides the ability to encrypt VMs VHD files. This can be achieved by the Azure Key Vault service. But, before we start, let's find an explanation about Azure Key Vault and what it does. Azure Key Vault is a vault that contains keys, secrets and it is...
Deploy Your First Azure API App
In a previous post, I was trying to explain what Azure API App is. In this one, I show you the steps to deploy your first Azure API App. Create API App From the Azure Portal click Create a resource and search for "API App" and click Create. Azure API App...
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George Grammatikos
George Chrysovalantis Grammatikos is an Azure Cloud Architect. He has more than 10 years experience in different technologies like BI & SQL Server Professional level solutions, Azure technologies, networking, security etc. He writes technical blogs for his blog “cloudopszone.com”, MS wiki articles and participates in discussions on Microsoft Wiki and other technical blogs.
