Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale Level 4: Log Service and Transaction Management
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In Level 2 of the Stairway to Hyperscale, we learn about Page Servers in more detail.
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Introduction of Azure SQL Hyperscale: Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale Level 1
In Level 1 of the Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale, we learn about the architecture and create a hyperscale instance.
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Stairway to Snowflake Level 8 - Event Tables
In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake, we delve into Event Tables. These are used to capture telemetry from your Snowflake database.
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Stairway to Snowflake Level 7 - Snowflake Tables
In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake we examine the wide variety of table types that exist in the platform.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-05-21)
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Level 6 of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics: Dedicated SQL Pool
This next level of the Stairway to Synapse Analysis Services looks at the Dedicated SQL Pool.
2025-06-06 (first published: 2025-05-07)
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Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code
Snowflake has its own CLI tool: SnowSQL. In this level of the Stairway Series learn how to work with this dialect in Snowflake and Visual Studio Code.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2024-11-20)
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Stairway to Snowflake Level 6 - Creating and Cloning Snowflake Databases
In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake, learn about creating and dropping databases, with some options for cloning from different sources.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-01-15)
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Level 4 of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics: Create and Use a Delta Lake
Introduction In Level 1 of this series, I discussed Synapse Analytics basics and the steps for creating the Synapse Workspace. In Level 2, we analyzed Data Lake files using the Serverless SQL Pool. In Level 3, we analyzed Data Lake files using the Spark Pool. In Levels 4 and level 5, I will discuss the Delta […]
2025-06-06 (first published: 2024-12-18)
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Stairway to Snowflake Level 4 - Introducing Snowsight, Snowflake’s Web UI
This next level of the Stairway to Snowflake looks at the Snowsight UI and what you can accomplish with it.
2025-06-13 (first published: 2024-10-23)
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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