As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering Data...
2023-05-15 (first published: 2023-05-03)
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I question I have been getting from customers lately is about a data marketplace. What is it, and what products can I use to build it? A data marketplace,...
2023-04-24 (first published: 2023-04-10)
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As I mentioned in my Data Mesh, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse presentation, the data lakehouse architecture, where you use a data lake with delta lake as a software layer...
2023-03-09
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Microsoft Purview, formally called Azure Purview (see Azure Purview is generally available) has recently released a number of new cool features. I wanted to call out a few of...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-09)
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A question I get asked frequently from customers when discussing Data lake architecture is “Should I use one data lake for all my data, or multiple lakes?”. Ideally, you...
2023-02-01 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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Happy new year to everyone! As I enter my 9th year at Microsoft, I have switched roles, and am now an Industry Advisor in Federal Civilian, helping our Federal...
2023-01-20 (first published: 2023-01-12)
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Over the years I have presented a ton (see the list), and some of those presentations were recorded. I had put some of them on my YouTube channel, but...
2022-12-15
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The big announcement at the PASS Data Community Summit 2022 was that SQL Server 2022 is now generally available. See the official announcement. My top 10 list of new...
2022-11-29
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I have attended and presented at a ton of conferences over the years (see the entire list at Presentations | James Serra’s Blog). If you are looking to learn...
2022-11-10
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Announced at Microsoft Ignite were some new product features related to data platform and AI. Below are the ones I found most interesting: Azure Cosmos DB adds distributed PostgreSQL...
2022-10-18
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By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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