Last Week Reading (2019-09-08)
Hello all and welcome after my one month of my absence. What was I doing? Thank you for asking! I have been on holiday. ONE month of very relaxing,...
2019-09-08
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Azure Player Blog
ASF 024: Leila Etaati interview
Introduction Leila Etaati is an AI MVP, mentor, trainer, speaker and consultant. She spoke in some important conference such as Microsoft USA Ignite, Microsoft Data Insight Summit, SQL PASS,...
2019-07-26
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Last Week Reading (2019-07-21)
Another week passed. Look what did I find during that time. Press British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach The penalty imposed on BA is the first...
2019-07-22
22 reads
ASF 024 video invitation
I’m happy to announce that the next episode of “Ask SQL Family” podcast is coming. This time our guest is an amazing woman, not only in AI and Power...
2019-07-19
9 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-07-07)
Hello, data eaters! Today, coming back from my friend by car, I was browsing a few posts on my cell (calmly – my wife was driving). At some point,...
2019-07-07
18 reads
Azure Databricks – create new workspace and cluster
In this post, I will quickly show you how to create a new Databricks in Azure portal, create our first cluster and how to start work with it. This...
2019-07-04
97 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-06-23)
Hello folks! Let’s take a look at a set of information from the field again. Press The best practices for performance comparison between Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL...
2019-06-23
25 reads
ASF 023 video invitation
I’m happy to announce that the next episode of “Ask SQL Family” podcast is coming. This time our guest is Amit Bansal. We were talking to him during this...
2019-06-21
20 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-06-16)
Hello Data girls and guys! A lot of Microsoft’s announcements in many areas of the data platform. Here you have a big portion of news today. Press Unlock the...
2019-06-16
22 reads
SSDT (SqlPackage) thread crashes with error when publishing
In this post, I will show you one of the scenarios when SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) can fail unexpectedly while publishing database project to target server or preparation...
2019-06-12
83 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
Forums
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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