2017-08-04
799 reads
Microsoft Fabric (Azure Synapse, Data Engineering, etc.)
Getting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Part 6
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is Microsoft’s new enterprise-class, elastic petabyte-scale, data warehouse service that can scale according to organizational demands in just few minutes. In this installment, Arshad Ali covers the different ways to load data into SQL Data Warehouse.
2017-07-17
3,573 reads
Azure DWH part 11: Data Warehouse Migration Utility
There is a new utility to import data from SQL Server on premises or Azure SQL to Azure SQL Data Warehouse (ASDW)
2017-07-17
1,712 reads
Azure DWH part 10: WPF and Azure SQL Data Warehouse
In this article, we will show how to create a WPF application and show how to insert data to ASDW.
2017-07-10
832 reads
Getting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Part 5
In part 5 of this series covering Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Arshad Ali looks at performance optimization.
2017-06-23
3,202 reads
Getting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Part 4
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a new enterprise-class, elastic petabyte-scale, data warehouse service. Join Arshad Ali as he discusses round-robin and distributed tables, and how to create them. He also discusses how partitioning works in SQL Data Warehouse and looks at the impact of choosing the right distribution key. As a bonus Arshad shows you how to leverage PolyBase to quickly and easily import or export data from SQL Data Warehouse.
2017-05-25
3,392 reads
Azure DWH Part 8: Accessing Azure SQL Data Warehouse with C#
In this new article, we will learn how to access to our Azure DWH tables using C#.
2017-05-15
2,322 reads
Getting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Part 3
Microsoft introduced Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a new enterprise-class, elastic petabyte-scale, data warehouse service that can scale according to organizational demands in just few minutes. In this article, Arshad Ali discusses the different types of tables you can create in SQL Data Warehouse, how they impact performance and the best practices around them.
2017-04-28
3,633 reads
2017-04-25
873 reads
Working with Tables in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
In this next installment of our series on Azure SQL Data Warehouse, we'll look at tables and the options for how we decide to create them for optimum performance.
2017-04-18
2,115 reads
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Restoring On Top II
I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers