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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           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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           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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           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 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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           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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           Microsoft has a ton of data platform-related products, but there are certain areas where they either don’t have a product or what they have is limited and you need...
       2021-10-01 (first published: 2021-09-22)
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