Snowflake Architecture – The Basics
At the most basic level, Snowflake has 3 important components. The Cloud services layer, centralised storage layer and the compute layer. Cloud services – they call this the “brains”...
2022-07-19
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All About SQL
Snowflake Editions
You have decided that snowflake is the technology you want to use to build your next gen data platform, you have decided your cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP) then...
2022-07-13
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Snowflake Data Cloud
Time to shift gears away from the world of relational databases whether that is in the cloud, on-prem, Linux-based, containers or even sitting within Kubernetes. Everyone has heard of...
2022-07-06
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A New MVP Led Training Initiative – Cloud Formations
Hello Readers – I wanted to make sure those who follow my blog have heard about the new MVP led training initiative started by Paul Andrew (@mrpaulandrew). It’s called...
2022-07-04
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Azure CLI – Deleting Resources
Azure CLI is really handy for all sorts of tasks. When I build solutions, POCs and environments and I want to tear down the resources I like to use...
2022-06-16
37 reads
Azure Storage Replication Types
Storage Accounts are pretty much integrated into so many different designs in Azure, whether you are using Azure Synapse, 3rd party product like Snowflake, or Event Streaming designs –...
2022-06-15
55 reads
Azure VM Scale Sets
I really like scale sets. It lets you create and manage up to 1000 load balanced VMs per availability zone using windows or Linux images. (We can have flexible...
2022-06-09
37 reads
Azure VM Types
There are many different family groups for Azure VMs each with its own purpose. Below is a summary of what can be selected. This is important because for example...
2022-06-06
12 reads
Azure High Availability
Lets write about Microsoft Azure, specially the area of high availability when it comes to virtual machines. No doubt you will know about Azure Virtual Machines. IaaS approach is...
2022-05-31
14 reads
Azure SQL Managed Instance – Maintenance Windows
A post close to my heart, Azure SQL Managed Instance, I have blogged about this many times but I feel I should be sharing more details about this. One...
2022-05-12
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Blogs
5 Advanced Online SQL DBA Training Courses to Learn in 2024 and Beyond
Buckle up, database wranglers! Nowadays, SQL DBAs hold the keys to a company's most...
Dynamically Unpivot columns in SQL
By DataOnWheels
Picture this, your data ingestion team has created a table that has the sales...
Friday Basics: RPO and RTO
By Brian Kelley
I did a post last month titled RTO and RPO are myths unless you've...
Forums
Azure SQL how to grant ALTER DATABASE permission
I have the user Managed identity <myusermanagedidentity> , granted it carte blanche alter...
SQL Server Encrypt data into a file, send it and then decrypt
First off, my apologies for what could potentially be a bad title! I am...
Question of the Day
Finding Marks
I have marked a few transactions in my code. How can I find out which marks were stored in a transaction log?
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