Arun Sirpal

I am a Senior DBA with interest in MS technology especially SQL Server and Azure. During 2015 I was mentored by Paul Randal – Data Platform (SQL Server) MVP and during 2016 I completed my SQLskills Immersion training on Internals and Performance Tuning. When I am not working I am in the gym burning calories.

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Snowflake + Azure blob

Let’s go back to data platforms today and I want to talk about a very common integration I see nowadays, Azure Blob Storage linked to Snowflake via a storage...

2024-10-18 (first published: )

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Blockchain + RWAs

Blockchain technology is still at the hype stage for an emerging technology cycle, it gets a bad image from all the dodgy web3 “crypto” fake projects out there (based...

2024-09-05

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Tech in 2030

What will the technology world look like in 2030? Cloud computing will naturally be the backbone of the world but I think with variants in “decentralising” concepts. By this...

2024-08-09 (first published: )

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WHAT IS A SPV?

Why am I focussing on RWA (real world assets) as the next big thing? The WEF predicted that by 2027, 10% of the world’s GDP could be stored on...

2024-08-09

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Azure SQL MI License free?

A common setup when leveraging the cloud is to use the cloud for Disaster recovery (DR) purposes, some say it becomes a logical extension of your on-prem / data...

2024-03-11 (first published: )

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Azure chaos STUDIO

Chaos engineering is fun but especially important when building solutions in the cloud. It is great leveraging the cloud to build something, whether that’s a globally distributed website with...

2023-06-28 (first published: )

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Cloning in Snowflake

Cloning is a powerful feature within snowflake (also known as zero copy clone). You can obviously clone at the database or schema level but also tables too. It’s a...

2022-11-11

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Sparse Column Storage

When does a column declared as SPARSE use no storage?

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