SQL Athena Introduction - How it works, Use Cases and Advantages
Learn about Amazon Athena, how it works, why you would use it, and some of the advantages of Athena over traditional relational databases.
2023-10-09
AWS
New Amazon X2iedn High-Memory Instances
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
Upserts in Amazon Redshift
This article discusses different approaches of Upserts (update+inserts) in Amazon Redshift
2023-08-09
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A Overview of Amazon Redshift
This article gives an overview of Amazon Redshift, the cloud data warehouse in AWS.
2023-07-24
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Demystifying Best Practices and Enhancing RDS security with Amazon GuardDuty
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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AWS Lambdas with C#
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
Amazon EC2 | Creating a Connection to an Amazon RDS Instance
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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Steps to Quickly Configure an AWS RDS SQL Server instance
Learn how to configure and deploy a new Amazon AWS RDS SQL Server instance with this step-by-step article.
2022-10-14
Custom SQL Server on RDS
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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Real Time data streams from SQL Server using Kafka Connect in the Cloud
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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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
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Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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