• RandomStream - Thursday, January 11, 2018 2:02 PM

    Lynn Pettis - Thursday, January 11, 2018 1:36 PM

    Okay, first I now have Visual Studio 2017 Pro.  I want to start looking at SQL Server 2017 capabilities but don't have SQL Server 2017 available at work or home at the moment so diving into SQL Azure.
    I have setup an Azure subscription but don't know where I should go from here.  Do I want SQL Database or do I want to go the VM route?  I have never felt so confused and out of my depth, well except when my daughter was asking for Python and C programming help.

    As a DBA, you are well qualified to advise your daughter to focus on powershell. Unless you are company is moving to Azure, you won't discover much about SQL 2017 Azure SQL database. Everything you are used to see is missing. Everything else is confusing and boring (because lots of dba stuff are being handled behind the scene.) So if you'd like to explore, I suggest VM.

    First, I can't advise my daughter to focus on powershell.  She is a college student at Johnson & Wales University in their Cyber Security program.  She has to learn that which is being taught, which includes Python, C, assembly language (MASM at the moment) and what ever else that comes down the pike in her program.