DevOps, a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and information-technology operations (Ops), has become a very popular way to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of...
2020-01-16 (first published: 2020-01-07)
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As a follow-up to my last blog, Azure Synapse Analytics & Power BI performance, I wanted to focus on concurrency when using these two products. A common question I...
2020-01-07 (first published: 2019-12-27)
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With two new relational database features (Result-set caching and Materialized Views) just GA’d in Azure Synapse Analytics (formally called Azure SQL Data Warehouse), it makes for some very compelling reporting...
2019-12-26 (first published: 2019-12-12)
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Just wanted to make everyone aware of my latest presentations that I recently uploaded. Details below. I also have a list of all my presentations with slide decks here. Azure...
2019-12-04
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Almost lost in all the announcements from Ignite was a bunch of amazing new features that were added to the Provisioned Resources/SQL Pool section (read SQLDW functionalities) side of...
2019-11-19 (first published: 2019-11-11)
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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...
2019-11-13 (first published: 2019-11-06)
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Introduced in April 2019, Databricks Delta Lake is, in short, a transactional storage layer that runs on top of cloud storage such as Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2...
2019-10-25 (first published: 2019-10-15)
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With data lakes becoming popular, and Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 being used for many of them, a common question I am asked about is “How can I...
2019-09-16
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A brand new product by Microsoft called Azure Data Share was recently announced. It is in public preview. To explain the product in short, any data which resides in...
2019-08-29 (first published: 2019-08-19)
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I did a couple of recent podcasts that I wanted to mention: The first one was with Kirby Repko from the YouTube channel SQLTalk: Modern Data Warehouse Design with...
2019-08-23 (first published: 2019-08-08)
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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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