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 discover a small new feature the other day, but a very useful one. Previously, there was no way to upload files to an ADLS Gen2 storage account via...
2020-07-07 (first published: 2020-06-22)
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Power BI has become hugely popular and I find common questions about functionality and features, so I thought I would put in this blog some of those questions with...
2020-06-23 (first published: 2020-06-08)
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By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous...
By Chris Yates
Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...
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I have a large table with 17M+ rows for our package record audits. I've...