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A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

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This site is a map of learning content produced by and curated by the SQL Server and Azure SQL teams in Microsoft Engineering. These materials are meant to be instructor-led, but you can work through ...

We are working on migrating SQL Project build and deployment pipelines to GitHub Actions. We are encountering issues with running deployment workflow using the sql-action (using Authentication='Active ...

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