The options that you need to select when setting up an Azure Storage service account allow you to specify the durability and high-availability of your data, but they don't provide for data recovery to a point-in-time. In fact, it means that some of the bad things that can happen to data are more efficiently replicated to all copies. Backup is quite a separate issue.
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Today Steve Jones talks about development, and finding ways to make small changes that improve your code.
An article about how we underestimate the power of joins and degrade our query performance by not using proper joins
Most large organizations have implemented one or more big data applications. As more data accumulates internal users and analysts execute more reports and forecasts, which leads to additional queries and analysis, and more reporting. The cycle continues: data growth leads to better analysis, which generates more reporting. Eventually the big data application swells with so much data and querying that performance suffers.
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Today Steve Jones talks leadership, and the value it can bring to your team if you display just a little of it.
A database must be able to maintain and enforce the business rules and relationships in data in order to maintain the data model. It does this through referential constraints. They aren't complex, but are powerful, especially with the means to attach DRI actions to them. Joe Celko explains all, and pines for the ANSI CREATE ASSERTION statement.
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PowerShell V2 introduces the "try-catch-finally" statements, similar to those you already use when you write .NET code. "Try-catch-finally" encloses a block of script that is likely to produce errors under specific circumstances and therefore helps you to keep your code organized. This article is a short usage guide for this error handling construct.
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Making Data AI-Ready, Part 1 (This is the first article in a three-part series...
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Thanks for attending my sessions. Resources below: Slides: Using Data API Builder GitHub repo: ...
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Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions at VS Live San Diego yesterday. It...
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