Hello Azure: Azure IaaS - Getting Started
A new series to take you through the basics of how to get started using Azure as your own personal lab.
2015-11-03
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Azure
Choosing hash distributed table vs. round-robin distributed table in Azure SQL DW Service
Designing databases to use distributed tables effectively will help you to achieve the storage and query processing benefits of the Azure SQL DW Service (SQL DW). In this article, Murshed Zaman explains the various Azure SQL Data Warehouse distributed table types, and offers guidance for choosing the type of distributed table to use and when to use it.
2015-08-31
2,130 reads
Azure Event Hubs
If you need to receive and process a large volume of of packets of data, such as telemetry, or event-log items, it may be worth considering Azure Event hubs. They aren't like traditional messaging but represent more of a stripped down one-way event processing system for large volumes of data. It could represent a good solution to an ever-present problem, but is it ready for production use? Rob Sheldon investigates.
2015-07-22
3,382 reads
Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Stream Analytics aims to extract knowledge structures from continuous ordered streams of data by real-time analysis. It provides a ready-made solution to the business requirement to react very quickly to changes in data and handle large volumes of information. Robert Sheldon explains its significance.
2015-06-25
3,380 reads
Automating A Heartbeat Check Against an Azure-SQL Database Using PowerShell
In this article, Tim Smith goes through a couple of options to automate heartbeat checks against Azure databases. This is useful if you're moved SQL Server databases to Azure and you want to have periodic checks to make sure the databases are responsive.
2015-06-17
2,129 reads
Cloud Storage Replication Is Not Backup
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.
2015-02-27
8,864 reads
Getting Started with HDInsight - Part 3 - Creating an HDInsight Cluster in Microsoft Azure Cloud
In this tip we will look at two different ways of creating an HDInsight Cluster: Creating an HDInsight Cluster through Azure Management Portal, and creating an HDInsight Cluster through Windows Azure PowerShell.
2015-01-01
6,840 reads
Azure Diagnostics for Virtual Machines
Hosting a scalable application in Azure seems ideal, but what happens when things go wrong? Azure Cloud Services provide extensive diagnostics, and this feature has now been extended to Azure web sites and Azure Virtual Machines. You need to set up diagnostics on the VM, but once this is done, all your logs, traces and performance counters can be collected from many VMs in one place for easy management.
2014-09-29
7,986 reads
10 things I learned about rapidly scaling websites with Azure
Troy Hunt takes a look at a website whose traffic literally increased 60-fold overnight. Interesting stuff happens when scale changes that dramatically, so he decided to share a few things he learned.
2014-09-24
8,351 reads
Azure Virtual Machines Part 0: A VM Primer
Mike Martin kicks off his series on Azure Virtual Machines with a primer, full of background and terms. To fully understand the Azure Virtual Machines offering, Mike explains how everything is connected and co-existing.
2014-09-18
8,859 reads
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