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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There are some options in Azure Synapse Analytics that are not obvious that I wanted to point out. While in Azure Synapse Studio, going to the Data hub and...
2020-09-29 (first published: 2020-09-23)
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The public preview version of Azure Synapse Analytics has three compute options and four types of storage that it can access (mentioned in my blog at SQL on-demand in...
2020-09-23 (first published: 2020-09-16)
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I am starting to see this relatively new phrase, “Data Lakehouse”, being used in the data platform world. It’s the combination of “Data Lake” and “Data Warehouse”. In this...
2020-09-17 (first published: 2020-09-10)
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I had a previous blog comparing Cosmos DB to a relational database (see Understanding Cosmos DB coming from a relational world) and one topic that it did not address...
2020-09-07 (first published: 2020-08-24)
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The new SQL on-demand (to be renamed SQL serverless) offering within Azure Synapse Analytics opens up a whole new world of getting insights into data immediately, at low-cost, using...
2020-08-20 (first published: 2020-08-10)
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I have wrote a number of blogs on the topic of business continuity in SQL Database before (HA/DR for Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database high availability, Azure SQL...
2020-08-03 (first published: 2020-07-20)
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On the heels of More Azure Blob Storage enhancements come more enhancements for Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 (ADLS Gen2): Archive tier is now GA: The archive tier provides...
2020-07-14 (first published: 2020-07-06)
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I wrote a post about PoSh output recently, noting that in general we ought...
For the second T-SQL Tuesday ever — again, hosted by Adam Machanic — we...
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
This is my 1st attempt at openjson & I'm trying to setup a stored...
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY ('ProductVersion') Output: 13.0.4001.0 What does each of those numbers mean.I need to...
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