KQL Series – SQL to KQL Cheat Sheet
This blog post is about how to quickly learn KQL. Kusto supports a subset of the SQL language. See the list of SQL known issues for the full list of unsupported...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – understanding KQL Queries (Part 1)
In my pervious post I wrote about KQL queries that we will write – we also could use some free some samples that Microsoft put up for us to...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – understanding KQL queries (Part 2)
In Part1 we talked about what a query is. The most common query we will write is a tabular expression statement which is what people usually have in mind...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – what is Kusto Query Language?
This blog post will detail what KQL is all about… KQL was developed to take advantage of the power of the cloud through clustering and compute. Using this capability,...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – why is it called Kusto Query Language?
I use KQL on an hourly basis…. But for a query language – why call it Kusto..? Where is a funny tidbit of information: You have probably heard something...
2022-03-31
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Kusto Query Language – a series
This blog post is about a new query language that I have learnt and I really think you need to learn it too. Especially if you are doing ANYTHING...
2022-03-31
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Azure Platform Series – renaming your YAML pipeline in Azure DevOps
This blog post is about YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps. I had a repo called InfrastructureAsCode for a client. I have been transitioning them to use YAML for their...
2021-08-02 (first published: 2021-07-15)
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Azure Platform Series: cloudshell code -your (brilliant) online editor
This post is about code which is an online editor you can use with cloudshell. I live in the Azure platform all day (almost) every day. What this means...
2021-02-05 (first published: 2021-01-25)
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Azure Platform Series “You have exceeded the maximum amount of scale changes within the past hour”
This blog post relates to where you might be doing scale operations of your app services or VMs in Azure and get the following error after doing quite a...
2021-02-01 (first published: 2021-01-23)
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Bash: ^^}: bad substitution – upgrade your Bash version (macOS)
This blog post is about a situation where you are capitalising an argument in bash and you get the following error: bash: ${state^^}: bad substitution In this example I...
2021-01-24
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