Introduction Azure Data Factory is the cloud-based ETL and data integration service that allows you to create data-driven workflows for orchestrating data movement and transforming data at scale. We can create and schedule data pipelines which can move data between various supported data stores. We can also use for data transformation before loading it into […]
2020-08-11
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Get a basic introduction to Terraform by deploying and removing SQL Servers and a failover group to Azure.
2020-06-18
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Introduction Microsoft released SQL Server on Linux, starting from SQL Server 2017. SQL Server 2019 (15.x) has the same underlying database engine on all supported platforms, including Linux. Therefore, many existing features and capabilities operate the same way on Linux. Platform File System Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, or 8 Server XFS […]
2020-06-01
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