Using Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB
Learn how you can query CosmosDB data from Azure Synapse in this walkthrough.
2020-12-17
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Sucharita Das
An Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
Introduction Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model platform-as-a-service (PaaS) database. Any web, mobile, gaming, and IoT application that needs to handle massive amounts of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data may use Azure Cosmos DB. Guaranteed high availability, high throughput, low latency, and tunable consistency help in reading and writing data at a global […]
2020-11-16
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Incremental Data Loading using Azure Data Factory
Introduction In my last article, Loading data in Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Data Factory, I discussed the step-by-step process for loading data from an Azure storage account to Azure Synapse SQL through Azure Data Factory (ADF). ADF basics are covered in that article. In this article I will go through the process for the incremental […]
2020-09-24
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An Introduction to Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace
Introduction The Azure Synapse workspace is in preview mode as of July 2020. The workspace brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. This workspace has the best of the SQL technologies used in enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies used in big data analytics, and pipelines to orchestrate activities and data movement. Here, I […]
2020-08-24
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Access external data from Azure Synapse Analytics using Polybase
Learn how you can use Polybase technology in Azure Synapse to load data into your warehouse.
2020-07-28
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Loading data in Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Data Factory
This article shows a basic Azure Data Factory pipeline to load data into Azure Synapse.
2020-07-20
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Loading data in Azure Synapse using Copy
Learn how to create a Synapse resource and upload data using the COPY command.
2020-07-13
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Isolation Levels in SQL Server
Details discussion on the different isolation levels available in SQL Server
2019-03-12
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