KQL Series – overview of ingesting data into our ADX cluster
In the previous blog post we created a database in our Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster. In this blog post we will discuss how we can ingest data into that database...
2023-03-19
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KQL Series – how not to waste $ running ADX clusters
This blog post is based on my personal experience running an Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster. I was doing a presentation for Data Platform Summit in India, I spun...
2022-04-11 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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KQL Series – create a database in our ADX cluster
In the previous blog post we created an Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster. In this blog post we will create a database that we will ingest data into, as...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – create an Azure Data Explorer cluster
I have written a lot about the magic of KQL and the brilliance of Azure Data Explorer. Now we should create a cluster of our own that hosts Azure...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – Interactive Analytics with Azure Data Explorer
This blog is about how we can do interactive analytics with Azure Data Explorer to explore data with ad hoc, interactive, and lightning fast queries over small to extremely...
2022-05-27 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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KQL Series – Security Monitoring with Azure Data Explorer
This blog post demonstrates a hybrid end-to-end monitoring solution integrated with Microsoft Sentinel and Azure Monitor for ingesting streamed and batched logs from diverse sources, on-premises, or any cloud,...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – Big Data Analytics with Azure Data Explorer
This blog pos illustrates how Azure Data Explorer and Azure Synapse Analytics complement each other for near real-time analytics and modern data warehousing use cases. This solution is already...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – quick intro to Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer is a PaaS offering from Azure providing an end-to-end solution for data exploration. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/individually-great-collectively-unmatched-announcing-updates-to-3-great-azure-data-services/ Here is a quick introduction of the features: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-explorer/#features This service from...
2022-04-15 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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KQL Series – KQL usage with Advanced Hunting (this is huge)
This blog post is about another use of KQL that will definitely help your organisation and make you very popular. First of all check out this video here which...
2022-03-31
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KQL Series – SQL to KQL Cheat Sheet
This blog post is about how to quickly learn KQL. Kusto supports a subset of the SQL language. See the list of SQL known issues for the full list of unsupported...
2022-03-31
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Switch partition: NULL boundary id
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Encoding NULL
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?
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