Analytics Platform System (APS) AU6 released
Better late than never: The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), released an appliance update...
2017-11-07
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James Serra's Blog
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a new flavor of Azure SQL Database that is a game changer. It offers...
2017-10-31
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Microsoft Ignite Big Data Presentations
There were so many good presentations at Microsoft Ignite, all of which can be viewed on-demand. I wanted to list...
2017-10-17
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Use cases of various products for a big data cloud solution
There are a tremendous amount of Microsoft products that are cloud-based for building big data solutions. It’s great that there...
2017-10-11
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What’s new in SQL Server 2017 presentation
I just uploaded a new presentation called “What’s new in SQL Server 2017”. It covers all the new features in...
2017-10-06
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements
Many product announcements were made this week at Microsoft Ignite, and I wanted to give a quick overview of all...
2017-09-28
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Distributed Writes
In SQL Server, scaling out reads (i.e. using Active secondary replicas via AlwaysOn Availability Groups) is a lot easier than scaling out...
2017-09-21
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Azure Archive Blob Storage
Last week Microsoft released a public preview of a new service called Azure Archive Blob Storage, offering customers a lower-cost...
2017-08-31
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Data Virtualization vs Data Warehouse
Data virtualization goes by a lot of different names: logical data warehouse, data federation, virtual database, and decentralized data warehouse....
2017-08-24
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Microsoft Big Data Certification Exams
I previously blogged about Microsoft certification changes, and since then there have been some new Microsoft Big Data certifications exams released:
Already...
2017-08-08
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Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
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Renaming a Database
If I want to rename the OldSales database to ArchiveSales, how can I do this? (choose 2)
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