Azure IoT Central
This is a short blog to give you a high-level overview on a product called Azure IoT Central. I saw this fairly new Azure product (GA Sept 2018) in...
2022-04-11 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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James Serra's Blog
Azure Synapse and Delta Lake
Many companies are seeing the value in collecting data to help them make better business decisions. When building a solution in Azure to collect the data, nearly everyone is...
2022-03-02
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Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric
(NOTE: I have returned to Microsoft and am working as a Solution Architect in Microsoft Industry Solutions, formally known as Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS), where I help customers build...
2022-02-08
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Microsoft industry clouds
In talking with Microsoft customers, I have found that most are not aware that Microsoft has created industry clouds (see Microsoft Industry Clouds). So I wanted to use this...
2022-01-28 (first published: 2022-01-18)
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Distributed SQL
A very brief history of databases for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads starts with relational databases (RDBMS), which worked well for many years. With the advent of the internet and...
2022-01-07 (first published: 2021-12-29)
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Azure Synapse Analytics November updates
Microsoft recently came out with a blog on a bunch of new features available for Azure Synapse Analytics (see Azure Synapse Analytics November 2021 Update), and I wanted to...
2021-12-20 (first published: 2021-12-09)
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Azure Synapse Analytics database templates
One of the biggest announcements at Microsoft Ignite that seemed to be overlooked by a lot of people was Azure Synapse Analytics database templates, now in public preview. I...
2021-12-01 (first published: 2021-11-22)
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2021
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 and...
2021-11-12 (first published: 2021-11-03)
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2021
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 and...
2021-11-03
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Azure Purview is generally available
After a very long public preview (9 months), Azure Purview is finally generally available (GA). I described Purview in a previous blog (New Microsoft data governance product: Azure Purview)....
2021-10-20 (first published: 2021-10-05)
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Blogs
Check your regions people
Today I was having a nice discussion with some colleagues about Fabric and pricing/licensing...
Using Git Prune–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
As I’ve been working with SQL Saturday and managing changes to events, I’ve accumulated...
Microsoft Purview new data governance features
By James Serra
Starting last week is a rollout of the public preview of a new and...
Forums
Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard
By Stewart "Arturius" Campbell
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Read Only Replica in SQL...
Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in Power BI - Part 1
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in...
Backup of encrypted databases failing
I've had some backups of my encrypted databases failing with the error "BACKUP 'DBName'...
Question of the Day
Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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