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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Blogs
The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP
By DataOnWheels
Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I...
PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script
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This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four...
Claude Desktop
By Arun Sirpal
Claude is more than a chat window. The desktop experience includes structured workspaces, generated...
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Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ephemeral Model: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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QUOTENAME Behavior
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Running script without having permission to Function
Good Morning. I have a T-SQL Script which has been developed to execute a...
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QUOTENAME Behavior
I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones' SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')What is returned? See possible answers