Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 is GA
Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 was made generally available on February 7th. In short, ADLS Gen2 is the best of the previous version of ADLS (now called ADLS Gen1)...
2019-02-19
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James Serra's Blog
Storage options for SQL Server database files in Azure
If you are using SQL Server in an Azure VM (IaaS) you have a number of options of where to...
2019-01-29
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Storage options for SQL Server database files in Azure
If you are using SQL Server in an Azure VM (IaaS) you have a number of options of where to store the database files (.mdf, .ldf, and .ndf). Most...
2019-01-29
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What product to use to transform my data?
If you are building a big data solution in the cloud, you will likely be landing most of the source...
2019-01-08
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What product to use to transform my data?
If you are building a big data solution in the cloud, you will likely be landing most of the source data into a data lake. And much of this...
2019-01-08
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Azure Data Factory Data Flow
Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) has a new feature in public preview called Data Flow. I have usually described ADF...
2018-12-17
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Azure Data Factory Data Flow
Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) has a new feature in public preview called Data Flow. I have usually described ADF as an orchestration tool instead of an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL)...
2018-12-17
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Should I load structured data into my data lake?
With data lakes becoming very popular, a common question I have been hearing often from customers is, “Should I load...
2018-11-27
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Should I load structured data into my data lake?
With data lakes becoming very popular, a common question I have been hearing often from customers is, “Should I load structured/relational data into my data lake?”. I talked about...
2018-11-27
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Premium blob storage
As a follow-up to my blog Azure Archive Blob Storage, Microsoft has released another storage tier called Azure Premium Blob Storage...
2018-11-16 (first published: 2018-11-06)
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A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
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You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
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Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
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Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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