Serverless
The idea of serverless computing is interesting, and with Azure Stack, might be something more of us embrace.
2019-05-02
359 reads
Cloud Computing
Processing Data Using Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Analytics, and Microsoft’s Big Data Language U-SQL
Data analytics has become one of the powerful domains in the world of data science. An enormous amount of data is being generated by each organization in every sector. Computer science has found solutions to store and process this data in a smart way through a distributed file system. One such example is Azure Data Lake. It uses the Hadoop Distributed File System, and to perform analytics on this data, Azure Data Lake storage is integrated with Azure Data Analytics Service and HDInsight. In this article, Suhas Pande will explain how to store data using Azure Data Lake and how to perform data analysis on it using U-SQL, a big data SQL and C# language.
2019-04-29
Dynamic Values in Linux Scripting
I do a LOT of scripting. Given the choice to click in a GUI vs. typing at the command line, I’ll choose the command line. Given the choice to...
2019-04-26
Reaping the benefits of cloud without moving your data
More and more organizations are moving to the cloud, but for some moving data isn’t an option. With a remote managed software and services (RMSS) solution deployment, however, it’s...
2019-04-15
Microsoft Launches Azure Premium Plans for Serverless Workloads
NEW-PRODUCT NEWS: The addition is the latest hosting option available for enterprise Azure users as they refine their Azure cloud deployments.
2019-04-12
Cloud Native
Building software for the cloud often requires some changes. This week Steve wonders how many of you are making the effort.
2019-04-12
178 reads
Amazon-Microsoft Face-Off Set for Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud
Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are the last competitors standing in the Pentagon’s winner-take-all competition for a $10 billion cloud services contract, the Defense Department said. The announcement eliminates...
2019-04-10
Google Embraces Multi-Cloud Clusters that Can Run Anywhere ... Even AWS
Anthos is an open platform that lets you run an app anywhere, without needing to modify the code, on existing on-premises hardware or in the public cloud.
2019-04-09
Transfer Data to the Cloud Using Azure Data Factory
In this tip we look at how to configure Azure Data Factory to move data from an on-premises SQL Server database to an Azure SQL Database.
2019-03-20
1,813 reads
Building a Collaborative Platform to Speed up Data Analysis
In this article, Feodor demonstrates the architecture, workflow, and some of the challenges of a collaborative platform (cloud foundation) for speeding up enterprises in their search for analytical power. He uses an example from the EA Billing solution, which was presented in the previous articles of the series.
2018-12-27
2,332 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Customer Quotes
By Steve Jones
Many organizations list customer testimonials and quotes on their websites or literature. It makes...
Using Cron in Postgres Flex
pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database...
Can I Change a Primary Key Value? #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...
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Question of the Day
Multiple Collations
Can I have a collation expression like this in SQL Server 2022?
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