There are various ways to keep SQL Server databases and SQL Database/SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) databases in-sync asynchronously that I will discuss in this blog. The main use...
2021-01-05 (first published: 2021-01-04)
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Announced last week is a major new feature for Power BI: you can now use DirectQuery to connect to Azure Analysis Services or Power BI Datasets and combine it...
2021-01-01 (first published: 2020-12-23)
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Azure Purview is at data governance solution that is the sequel to the product Azure Data Catalog, and is now available in public preview. Purview catalogs data from on-premises,...
2020-12-10
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(Note: I will give a demo on Azure Synapse Analytics this Saturday Dec 5th at 1:10pm EST, at the PASS SQL Saturday Atlanta BI (info) (register) (full schedule)) Great...
2020-12-15 (first published: 2020-12-04)
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I will be speaking at two upcoming PASS SQLSaturday’s. These are free events that you can attend virtually: Azure Synapse Analytics: A Data Lakehouse 12/5/20, 1:10pm EST, PASS SQL...
2020-12-02
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For those companies that can’t yet move to the cloud, have certain workloads that can’t move to the cloud, or have limited to no internet access, Microsoft has options...
2020-12-01 (first published: 2020-11-18)
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A question that I have been hearing recently from customers using Azure Synapse Analytics (the public preview version) is what is the difference between using an external table versus...
2020-11-11 (first published: 2020-11-03)
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I have listed below the top questions I see from customers about Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI, and the blogs that I have written that try to answer...
2020-10-28 (first published: 2020-10-22)
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As I was finishing up a demo script for my presentation at the SQL PASS Virtual Summit on 11/13 (details on my session here), I wanted to blog about...
2020-10-23 (first published: 2020-10-15)
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Microsoft Ignite has always announced many new products and new product features, and this year was no exception. Many exciting announcements, and below I list the major data platform related...
2020-10-08 (first published: 2020-09-30)
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By Andy Warren
I think our profession was the better for having a professional association, even if...
By Andy Warren
in my last post I wrote about thinking of the tools as being a...
By Devin-Knight
There are a lot of hot phrases you’ve likely heard thrown around during various...
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