Applies to: SQL Server on Azure VM This article provides a quick checklist as a series of best practices and guidelines to optimize performance of your SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). For comprehensive details, see the other articles in this series: VM size, Storage, Security, HADR configuration, Collect baseline. Enable SQL Assessment for SQL Server on Azure VMs and your SQL Server wi
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