This article gives an overview of the Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse architecture. The new platform-as-a service (PaaS) offering provides independent compute and storage scaling on demand and is currently in public preview.
An explanation as to what Log Shipping is and why it's still a viable solution in 2016.
The whole point of using a cloud service is to be able to use it intensively for a brief period just when it is needed and then clear out all your work when you've finished. This means automation to make the process as quick and easy as possible. It is likely to mean creating a VM, provisioning it from scratch and spinning it up using PowerShell. Relax, grab the popcorn, and let Adam Bertram show you how he does it in Azure.
Passwords are always a challenge, but are bad passwords the users' fault? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
Arshad Ali demonstrates what the APPLY operator is, how it differs from regular JOINs, and what its applications are.
Steve Jones talks version control, but from the production perspective.
Traditional deployments of Azure SQL Database involve identifying projected resource requirements and selecting individual Azure SQL Database instances. For fluctuating workloads, this frequently results in over- or under-provisioning. To address this challenge, Microsoft offers another approach to sizing Azure SQL Database that relies on Elastic Database Pools. Marcin Policht takes a look.
Someone made a call to architect zero downtime for databases. Steve Jones isn't sure this is the best thing you could do.
You can develop a Power BI Dashboard that uses an R machine learning script as its data source and custom visuals. Here is a simple example that shows how to connect to data sources over the Internet, cleanse, transform and enrich the data through the use analytical datasets returned by the R script, design the dashboard and finally share it.
There's a push to upgrade those SQL Server 2005 instances with support ending this April.
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Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
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As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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