Why use a data lake?
Previously I covered what a data lake is (including the Azure Data Lake and enhancements), and now I wanted to touch...
2015-12-29
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James Serra's Blog
Storage options on Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services...
2015-12-01
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Redundancy Options in Azure Blob Storage
So you have data in Azure Blob Storage and are concerned about reliability. Have no fear! There are four replication options...
2015-11-10 (first published: 2015-11-05)
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Copying data from Azure Blob Storage
In a previous blog I talked about copying on-prem data to Azure Blob Storage (Getting data into Azure Blob Storage). ...
2015-10-15
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Azure Data Lake enhancements
I first blogged about Microsoft’s new product, the Azure Data Lake, a few months back (here). There are already enhancements, as...
2015-09-29
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Getting data into Azure Blob Storage
If you have on-prem data and want to copy it to Azure Blob Storage in the cloud, what are all...
2015-09-17
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Relational databases vs Non-relational databases
I see a lot of confusion about the place and purpose of the many new database solutions (“NoSQL databases”) compared...
2015-08-27
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Hadoop and Microsoft
In my Introduction to Hadoop I talked about the basics of Hadoop. In this post, I wanted to cover some of...
2015-08-12
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU4 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU4),...
2015-08-06
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Cortana Analytics Suite
Yesterday at the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference in Orlando Microsoft announced the Cortana Analytics Suite, which is a new package...
2015-07-14
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Helps with Commit Messages
By Steve Jones
At Redgate, we’re experimenting with how AI can help developers and DBAs become better...
Startup scripts in SQL Server containers
I was messing around performing investigative work on a pod running SQL Server 2025...
Using SQL Compare with Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate recently released SQL Compare v16, which included a new feature to work with...
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Fuzzy String Search II
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Azure-SSIS, Self-Hosted Integration Runtime, & Data Gateway?
Looking to confirm my understanding of these three products and how they can be...
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What is Page Density
In SQL Server, there is a concept of page density. This is determined by how much data is stored on each page. What is a page density of 90%?
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