How Azure Synapse integrates your data pipelines
Cloud computing is an exciting platform to deliver solutions in a fraction of the time it is used to take. It bypasses the heavy lifting of setting up everything from […]
Scripting Azure Synapse Analytics
Background Development on Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly Azure SQL Data Warehouse) is progressing at a rapid pace. Recently, in April 2020, the new workspaces preview was released. This is an […]
How to Avoid a Docker Database Disaster
Containers are cool – and everyone and their mother is trying to get on board with them. While many applications are natural fit for containers in many cases, it feels […]
SQL Server on Linux: A Savvy Move By Microsoft
The graphic said it all: the words SQL Server and Linux, linked together with a cheerful red heart. Microsoft’s announcement yesterday that it will bring its popular data software to […]
Microsoft Announces New Big Data Azure Services
Microsoft announced several new features targeting Big Data processing including support for HDInsights on Ubuntu Linux, as well as a set of new features in their Data Lake services. The […]
Microsoft Announces Azure SQL Data Warehouse Public Preview
Microsoft has announced the Azure SQL Data Warehouse is open for business, at least for a lucky few customers. The limited public preview is designed to for data warehouses in […]
Microsoft Continues Push To Win Over Developers at Build 2015
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at Build 2015 today and with a little help from his Microsoft colleagues made the strongest pitch yet for why all developers should […]
Connect to Microsoft SQL Azure using SQL Management Studio
The much-anticipated next release of the SQL 2008 R2 November CTP is here … for those of you using Azure, the ability to connect directly to a SQL Azure instance […]
SqlCacheDependency Hell
I just emerged from SqlCacheDependency hell–actually, SQL Server 2005 hell. I thought I’d document the problem (and the solution) so others won’t have to waste as much time as I […]