Azure DevOps: Show Me the JSON!

Creating resources in Azure, while not difficult, can be time consuming if you use the manual steps. One way to automate the process is by using JSON templates to save time and enforce standards. In this article, Brian Flynn describes how to create JSON templates for deploying a network with virtual machines.

Understanding your Azure EA Billing Data and Building a Centralized Data Storage Solution

Many organizations are moving to Azure and other cloud providers. Understanding how resources are being used and what is spent is very important. In this article, Feodor explains his solution for automating the collection of the Enterprise Agreement billing from Azure into an Azure SQL Database where it can be analyzed.

Resource Groups

The DTU Counters

Azure DWH part 25: Auditing and threat detection

In this new article, we will show how to audit the Data Warehouse Activities.

Azure DWH part 24: Elastic queries

This article will explain what is an elastic query and show an example.

Azure DWH part 18: Working with SQL Server Analysis Services

In this new article, we will learn how to create a cube extracting data from ADWH.

Azure DWH part 17: ADF:Import Data from SQL Server on-premises to ASDW

In this article we will learn to use Data Factory to import table from SQL Server to Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

EXPLAINING things

Monitoring Azure Cloud and Hybrid Environments

Cloud-based services and applications must still be monitored just like the on-premise ones. You still need most of your data center activities that ensure that your planning, budgeting, security and service-level obligations are met wherever the data and services are actually hosted. There is much to be said for an integrated approach to providing a unified view of entire application workloads on-premise. hybrid and cloud using the same tools wherever possible.