Top Modern Data Warehouse questions
Below are the top 15 questions I am seeing from customers looking to build a modern data warehouse in the cloud, and the blogs that I have wrote that...
2019-07-22
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James Serra's Blog
Big Data Workshop
A challenge I have with customers who want to get hands-on experience with the Azure products that are found in a modern data warehouse architecture is finding a workshop...
2019-07-30 (first published: 2019-07-10)
363 reads
The Microsoft Power Platform
The Microsoft Power Platform consists of three products: Power BI, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow. I find customers are confused on the use cases of these products and how they...
2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-25)
311 reads
Common Data Model
The Common Data Model (CDM) is a shared data model that is a place to keep all common data to be shared between applications and data sources. Another way...
2019-06-20 (first published: 2019-06-06)
1,743 reads
Microsoft Build event announcements
Another Microsoft event and another bunch of exciting announcements. At the Microsoft Build event last week, the major announcements in the data platform and AI space were: Machine Learning...
2019-05-30 (first published: 2019-05-16)
309 reads
Where should I clean my data?
As a follow-up to my blogs What product to use to transform my data? and Should I load structured data into my data lake?, I wanted to talk about where you...
2019-04-25
2,174 reads
Two more of my presentations
I recently made available two more presentations that you might find helpful. Feel free to download them and present them to others (adding a line that you got them...
2019-04-04
66 reads
Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer (ADX) was announced as generally available on Feb 7th. In short, ADX is a fully managed data...
2019-03-14
2,271 reads
Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer (ADX) was announced as generally available on Feb 7th. In short, ADX is a fully managed data analytics service for near real-time analysis on large volumes...
2019-03-14
291 reads
My latest presentations
I frequently present at user groups, and always try to create a brand new presentation to keep things interesting. We...
2019-03-11
362 reads
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Forums
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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