Amazon just announced new X2iedn instance types for Amazon RDS SQL Server. They’re a sweet deal for people who want a high-performance managed database, with really fast cores and more memory per core than you can get in Azure’s managed SQL offerings.
2023-10-04
This article discusses different approaches of Upserts (update+inserts) in Amazon Redshift
2023-08-09
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This article gives an overview of Amazon Redshift, the cloud data warehouse in AWS.
2023-07-24
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This article looks at four security best practices for protecting databases in AWS along with how GuardDuty can be used to provide additional security.
2023-05-17
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In this article, I will take you through the development process of building an API on the serverless cloud with C#. This API will be built to serve pizzas, with two endpoints, one for making pizza and the other for tasting fresh pizzas. I expect some general familiarity with AWS and serverless computing. Any previous experience with building APIs in .NET will also come in handy.
2023-03-08
In a previous article, we showed how to expose an Amazon RDS instance to the public internet securely for direct access to the database. In this article we shall configure an Amazon EC2 instance for network access to an existing Amazon RDS instance. The purpose of this would be to make sure that if we deploy an application to this EC2 instance, communication from the client to the RDS instance would be smooth.
2022-12-05
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Learn how to configure and deploy a new Amazon AWS RDS SQL Server instance with this step-by-step article.
2022-10-14
SQL Server on RDS has a more configurable option that allows you to meet the specific requirements of your application in a similar was as you would on-premises, while still being a managed service.
2022-09-21
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See a simple demonstration of how Kafka can stream events for changes to data in SQL Server tables.
2021-07-02 (first published: 2021-05-27)
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This article shows how you can read data from a file in S3 using Python to process the list of files and get the data.
2021-03-09
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By Brian Kelley
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By Steve Jones
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All week we've had issues with the site being up and down. There's been...
I created a post (or tried) in the 2022 Admin forum. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?post_type=topic&p=4694880 But it's...
In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?
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