Azure SQL Database Read Scale-Out
Read Scale-Out is a little-known feature that allows you to load balance Azure SQL Database read-only workloads using the capacity of...
2018-09-17 (first published: 2018-09-05)
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Azure SQL Database Read Scale-Out
Read Scale-Out is a little-known feature that allows you to load balance Azure SQL Database read-only workloads using the capacity of read-only replicas, for free. As mentioned in my blog Azure...
2018-09-05
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Azure SQL Database disaster recovery
My last blog post was on Azure SQL Database high availability and I would like to continue along that discussion with...
2018-08-29
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Azure SQL Database disaster recovery
My last blog post was on Azure SQL Database high availability and I would like to continue along that discussion with a blog post about disaster recovery in Azure SQL...
2018-08-29
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Azure SQL Database high availability
In this blog I want to talk about how Azure SQL Database achieves high availability. One of the major benefits...
2018-08-22
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Azure SQL Database high availability
In this blog I want to talk about how Azure SQL Database achieves high availability. One of the major benefits from moving from on-prem SQL Server to Azure SQL...
2018-08-22
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Power BI: Dataflows
Dataflows, previously called Common Data Service for Analytics as well as Datapools, will be in preview soon and I wanted...
2018-08-21 (first published: 2018-08-03)
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Power BI: Dataflows
Dataflows, previously called Common Data Service for Analytics as well as Datapools, will be in preview soon and I wanted to explain in this blog what it is and...
2018-08-03
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Power BI new feature: Composite models
There are two really great features just added to Power BI that I wanted to blog about: Composite models and...
2018-07-27
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The need for having both a DW and cubes
I have heard some people say if you have a data warehouse, there is no need for cubes (when I...
2018-07-31 (first published: 2018-07-20)
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Checking the Error Log III
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