Prevent Accidental Data Deletion in Azure Storage Container with Soft Delete Features (2022-01-21)

SQLServerCentral Newsletter for January 21, 2022 Problems displaying this newsletter? [View online](. [SQL Server Central]( Featured Contents - [Prevent Accidental Data Deletion in Azure Storage Container with Soft Delete Features]( - [Choosing Between SQL Server Integration Services and Azure Data Factory]( - [The Redgate Advocates Predict… 3 Key Challenges to Overcome in 2022]( - [From the SQL Server Central Blogs - T-SQL Tuesday 146: Where should business logic reside?]( - [From the SQL Server Central Blogs - Architecture – The Perfect Enemy]( Question of the Day - [Cosmos DB Request Units]( The Voice of the DBA  Daily Coping Tip Get outside and notice 5 things. I also have [a thread at SQLServerCentral]( dealing with coping mechanisms and resources. Feel free to participate. For many of you out there working in a new way, I'm including a thought of the day on how to cope in this challenging time from [The Action for Happiness Coping Calendar](. My items will be on [my blog](, feel free to share yours. The Need for 256GB I have seen a few people call for raising the RAM limit in the Standard Edition of SQL Server. In 2016, [Aaron Bertrand voiced this](, and for 2019, [Glenn Berry asked that the limit be raised to 256GB](. In the last newsletter of the year, Brent Ozar asked Santa for a 256GB limit. I wonder how many of you would really take advantage of that. In [the Azure SQL Database pricing table](, to get beyond 128GB of RAM, you need to go to 32 cores. [For Azure VMs](, you need to purchase even more cores. [AWS EC2 VMs]( require 32 cores to get to 256GB. How many of you use this many cores for your SQL Server Standard Edition instances? I'm sure some of you do, but is it many instances that require this many cores and RAM without Enterprise Edition? If you do run EE, then is it because you need more resources or because you need some other EE feature? Certainly, the use of lots of resources is likely something Microsoft considers to be a feature. They want more for licensing when you have a large workload. I don't know if I think this is morally fair, after all the bits are really the same and there's an artificial limit that doesn't allow the use of them with more underlying resources. As a side note, this has made it into other areas. My Tesla offers me the option for more acceleration if I pay them US$2000. The hardware will already support this, but it's a software unlock for a price. That feels strange. Across all the instances you have, how many of them have the need for more RAM? Perhaps a better question is whether your organization would allocate more RAM given the cost involved. I still see too many organizations that underspend for hardware when it would make a difference for customers. Of course, many of you might also get better performance if you learned to write better code that efficiently solves query problems. Steve Jones - SSC Editor [Join the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums](   Featured Contents [SQLServerCentral Article]( [Prevent Accidental Data Deletion in Azure Storage Container with Soft Delete Features]( arindamxs from SQLServerCentral Learn about enabling soft-delete for your Azure Storage containers. [External Article]( [Choosing Between SQL Server Integration Services and Azure Data Factory]( Additional Articles from MSSQLTips.com In this article we look at the similarities and differences of SSIS and Azure Data Factory and provide some insight as to when you would use one over the other. [External Article]( [The Redgate Advocates Predict… 3 Key Challenges to Overcome in 2022]( Additional Articles from Redgate Read what Grant, Steve and Kathi predict will be the biggest challenges for data professionals to overcome this year. [Blog Post]( From the SQL Server Central Blogs - [T-SQL Tuesday 146: Where should business logic reside?]( Diligentdba 46159 from Mala's Data Blog I am trying to get started on blogging again this year…T-SQL Tuesday came in handy with a great topic. This month’s host is Andy Yun(t |b). Andy’s challenge for... [Blog Post]( From the SQL Server Central Blogs - [Architecture – The Perfect Enemy]( K. Brian Kelley from Databases – Infrastructure – Security When I was younger, I always wanted the perfect solution to an IT problem. I remember getting into argument after argument trying to insist upon the perfect configuration, setup,...   Question of the Day Today's question (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor):  Cosmos DB Request Units How is a Cosmos DB Request Unit (RU) defined? Think you know the answer? [Click here]( and find out if you are right.    Yesterday's Question of the Day (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor) Endpoint Authentication Order If I want to specify that my database mirroring endpoint for an Availability Group uses Windows authentication first and then a certificate, how do I specify this in the CREATE ENDPOINT statement? Answer: AUTHENTICATION = WINDOWS CERTIFICATE cert_name Explanation: If I use WINDOWS option CERTIFICATE cert_name, I can have the endpoint try to authennticate with Windows, and if this doesn't work, try a certificate. Ref: CREATE ENDPOINT - [Discuss this question and answer on the forums](    Database Pros Who Need Your Help Here's a few of the new posts today on the forums. 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The INSERT […] [Knowing ERD for Joins and Subquerries]( - Hi Experts, I am learning and when I want to practice Subqueries and Joins from the database say Adventureworks or T-SQL Information Schema, I am not able to know how to join and how to create an ERD. My challenge in any system is that I need to know the data model before I practice […] SQL Server 2019 - Administration [Good t-sql script possibly to list partitions and used/free space on Linux]( - I have quite a few scripts to monitor space on Windows server, but I couldn't find a good t-sql script that can actually list out partition names and space details. Does anyone have one? [SSIS Error when trying to run a SQL Server Agent Job]( - SQL Server Integration Services was already installed on the target server when I backed up the SSISDB from the source server(ss2016) and restored it to the Target Server(ss2019). 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