SQL SERVER – Stretch Database – Free Trial Subscriptions Can Provision Basic, Standard S0 through S3 Databases, up to 100 eDTU Basic or Standard Elastic Pools and DW100 Through DW400 Data Warehouses

I wrote a blog earlier about my first experience (and error encountered) with “Stretch Database” feature. In this blog I would talk about the error – Free Trial subscriptions can provision Basic, Standard S0 through S3 databases, up to 100 eDTU Basic or Standard elastic pools and DW100 through DW400 data warehouses.

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How to Track Data Platform Service Level and Performance Before and After Consolidation?

When you are planning data platform consolidation, it is very important to track down the changes in the overall system performance after the actual migration is done. You should understand the differences in the configurations and performance of the instances and databases. Then you will also understand better how well the actual planning work went, and which are the possible challenges in the data platform.

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SQL SERVER – Unable to Set Cloud Witness. Error: An Existing Connection Was Forcibly Closed by The Remote Host

After finishing my lab and testing, I went to my client and they showed me error while setting up cloud witness. They showed me a different error then earlier. In this blog, we would learn about fixing error Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host while configuring cloud witness.

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SQL SERVER – FIX: Database Diagram Error 15517 – Cannot Execute as the Database Principal Because the Principal ‘dbo’ Does Not Exist

Today’s blog post is directly inspired by the conversation I had during my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. During the consulting engagement, one of the developers reported below error in the database while trying to open a database diagram.

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