Azure SQL Database Connectivity
Have you ever wondered how your connection from outside of Azure to your database is handled? It is important to understand that there is a difference between route(s) from...
2020-12-10
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All About SQL
[Video] Azure SQL Database – Import a Database
Quick Video showing you have to use a BACPAC to “import” a database into Azure (Via Storage container),
2020-12-03
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Azure SQL Database – Greatest and Least TSQL
Being in the cloud does have many benefits, from lower administration to fast scaling but another “side effect” of operating in Azure SQL Database is the cloud first nature...
2020-11-26
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Azure SQL Database and Memory
There are many factors to consider when you are thinking about the move to Azure SQL Database (PaaS) – this could be single databases (provisioned compute or serverless) to...
2020-11-22
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[Video] Azure SQL Database – Failing Over (Failover Groups)
Quick video showing you how to failover your Azure SQL Database between your primary and secondary location.
2020-11-18
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Azure Defender for SQL
If you have been following me or generally topics around Azure SQL Database and security you would know that it is important to leverage Advanced Data Security (ADS) for...
2020-11-09
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Azure Databricks – Adding Libraries
It is a really common requirement to add specific libraries to databricks. Libraries can be written in Python, Java, Scala, and R. You can upload Java, Scala, and Python...
2020-11-03
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Azure Databricks and Azure Key Vault
The key vault should always be a core component of your Azure design because we can store keys, secrets, certicates thus abstract / hide the true connection string within...
2020-10-28
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Azure Databricks – Pin Cluster
Before discussing why you would want to pin a cluster it would be useful to understand the different states of a cluster. We can have: I usually have “auto...
2020-10-22
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Azure Databricks to Power BI
A very common approach is to query data straight from Databricks via Power BI. For this you need Databricks token and the JDBC address URL. This is found within...
2020-10-20
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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