Arjun Sivadasan

Hi, I am Arjun Sivadasan. I am a Data Engineering and Analytics manager with 14 years of experience. I have worked in various data-focused roles, developing and maintaining mission critical data-driven solutions in transaction and analytics environments. I am adept at mapping business goals to technology road map. Most of my work has been on data strategy, data architecture, data platform modernization and analytics. I enjoy speaking about databases and analytics at local user group events.

Interests: Cycling, Cooking, Motorbikes

Website: http://www.sqlroadie.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunsivadasan/

Part 1: Predictive Modeling using R and SQL Server Machine Learning Services

by Arjun Sivadasan

SQL Roadie

To R or not to R? A few months ago, I asked myself an important question – which language to learn first – R or Python? From my research,...

2018-11-12

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Part 1: Predictive Modeling using R and SQL Server Machine Learning Services

by Arjun Sivadasan

SQL Roadie

To R or not to R?
A few months ago, I asked myself an important question – which language to learn first...

2018-11-12

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Azure Cosmos DB Free Trial – walk through of Gremlin API for Graph

by Arjun Sivadasan

SQL Roadie

After the 2018 Microsoft Ignite event, Microsoft announced a free trial of Azure Cosmos DB. For those who are eager...

2018-10-12 (first published: 2018-10-01)

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Azure Cosmos DB Free Trial – walk through of Gremlin API for Graph

by Arjun Sivadasan

SQL Roadie

After the 2018 Microsoft Ignite event, Microsoft announced a free trial of Azure Cosmos DB. For those who are eager to check out Cosmos DB, this is a great...

2018-10-01

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Azure Cosmos DB – Partition and Throughput

by Arjun Sivadasan

SQL Roadie

In my previous article Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB, I mentioned Partition and Throughput only briefly. Adopting a good partition scheme...

2018-08-17 (first published: 2018-08-05)

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Export data from Cosmos DB to SQL Server

by Arjun Sivadasan

SQL Roadie

Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s latest NoSQL database offering low latency, high scalability and geo-distribution to any Azure region. Read Microsoft...

2018-04-29

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Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB

by Arjun Sivadasan

SQL Roadie

What is Azure Cosmos DB?
Cosmos DB started as an internal project – “Project Florence” – at Microsoft in 2010. It is a...

2018-04-29

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Live Query Statistics – SQL Server 2016

by Arjun Sivadasan

SQL Roadie

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2016 has a handy new feature to View Live Query Statistics. This feature also works...

2018-03-07

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Because loyalty is a two-way street

by Arjun Sivadasan

SQL Roadie

Moving a dog to Australia with no money at hand
I always had plans to move to Brisbane, Australia, where my...

2016-02-27

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Database Mail shutting down. Mail queue has been stopped.

by Arjun Sivadasan

SQL Roadie

DB mail in our production servers started acting up last week. We have SQL Server 2012 SP1. There were a couple...

2015-07-27

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Blogs

Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion

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I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...

Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection

By Meagan Longoria

Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet...

Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python

By Eduardo Pivaral

Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...

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