Microsoft Ignite has always announced many new products and new product features, and this year was no exception. Many exciting announcements, and below I list the major data platform related...
2020-10-08 (first published: 2020-09-30)
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There are some options in Azure Synapse Analytics that are not obvious that I wanted to point out. While in Azure Synapse Studio, going to the Data hub and...
2020-09-29 (first published: 2020-09-23)
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The public preview version of Azure Synapse Analytics has three compute options and four types of storage that it can access (mentioned in my blog at SQL on-demand in...
2020-09-23 (first published: 2020-09-16)
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I am starting to see this relatively new phrase, “Data Lakehouse”, being used in the data platform world. It’s the combination of “Data Lake” and “Data Warehouse”. In this...
2020-09-17 (first published: 2020-09-10)
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I had a previous blog comparing Cosmos DB to a relational database (see Understanding Cosmos DB coming from a relational world) and one topic that it did not address...
2020-09-07 (first published: 2020-08-24)
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The new SQL on-demand (to be renamed SQL serverless) offering within Azure Synapse Analytics opens up a whole new world of getting insights into data immediately, at low-cost, using...
2020-08-20 (first published: 2020-08-10)
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I have wrote a number of blogs on the topic of business continuity in SQL Database before (HA/DR for Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database high availability, Azure SQL...
2020-08-03 (first published: 2020-07-20)
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On the heels of More Azure Blob Storage enhancements come more enhancements for Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 (ADLS Gen2): Archive tier is now GA: The archive tier provides...
2020-07-14 (first published: 2020-07-06)
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I discover a small new feature the other day, but a very useful one. Previously, there was no way to upload files to an ADLS Gen2 storage account via...
2020-07-07 (first published: 2020-06-22)
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Power BI has become hugely popular and I find common questions about functionality and features, so I thought I would put in this blog some of those questions with...
2020-06-23 (first published: 2020-06-08)
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