Manvendra Singh
Check Transparent Data Encryption state after removing TDE

Remove Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) from SQL Server user databases

September 24, 2021 by

Transparent Data Encryption is getting popular these days because every business owner is serious about protecting their data. Everybody wants to use the latest encryption technologies to make sure their systems are more secure and stable. SQL Server also offers some encryption features to protect client’s data like TDE (Transparent Data Encryption), Always Encrypt, etc. Sometimes, business wants to transform their existing encryption solution by implementing its advance versions or encryptions. You must remove the existing encryption solution before implementing any newer solution.

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Aveek Das
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Triggering Function Apps from Azure Queue Storage

September 23, 2021 by

In this article, we are going to learn how to trigger Function Apps from Queue Storage in Azure. Function Apps has been one of the most popular cloud services of Microsoft Azure. Function Apps allow users to write code in any language and then execute the code in the cloud. There is no infrastructure to be managed and hence is very flexible for writing and building applications on the go. Every Function App can be triggered in multiple ways, for example, by calling the function URL using an HTTP endpoint or from some other functions in Azure. In this article, we are going to trigger the Function App from Queue Storage in Azure and see how to pass a message from the queue to the Function App.

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Dinesh Asanka

Building Ensemble Classifiers in Azure Machine Learning

September 21, 2021 by

Introduction

This article is the newest addition to the article series of Azure Machine Learning which is Ensemble classifiers in Azure Machine Learning. During this article discussion, we have focused on data cleaning and feature selection techniques of Machine Learning. Further, we have discussed several machine learning tasks in Azure Machine Learning such as Classification, Clustering, Regression, Recommender System and Time Series Anomaly Detection. Further, we discussed AutoML features that are available with Azure Machine Learning Services. In the AutoML techniques, we have identified how to utilize Classification in AutoML. This article is an extension of the classification techniques that we discussed before.

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Manvendra Singh
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Impact of TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) on Tempdb databases

September 15, 2021 by

This article will explain the impact of TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) on one of the crucial system databases, tempdb. Everybody wants to secure their data to prevent unauthorized access and use. SQL Server is a very popular enterprise RDBMS system that is used to store client’s data inside their databases. It also offers multiple features to secure the data stored in the databases. TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) is one of those features which is used to secure SQL Server databases by encrypting their database files. TDE protects data by applying encryption using a certificate which is also protected by the master key.

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Aveek Das

Getting started with the Azure Queue Storage using Python

September 14, 2021 by

In this article, we are going to talk about the Azure Queue Storage service using python as a programming language. As it goes by the name, Azure Queue Storage is a simple queue and messaging service in Azure that can be used to build queues and process messages in an asynchronous fashion. Queues help to decouple multiple systems and provide the middle layer in a distributed architecture. The Queue Storage service in Azure allows users to connect to and store messages up to 64 KB in size from anywhere in the world. It is exposed by using HTTP or HTTPS endpoints and can contain millions of messages that need to be processed.

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Nisarg Upadhyay
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Learn MySQL: MySQL Copy table

September 7, 2021 by

This article explains the MySQL copy table process. In this article, you will learn how we can copy data from one table to another table. These tables could be in the same database or different databases. The MySQL copy table process can copy a specific dataset or all data from the source table to the destination table. We can use the MySQL copy table process to replicate the issues that occurred on production servers, which helps developers rectify the issues quickly.

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