Ahmad Yaseen

Ahmad Yaseen
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Trigger Now a pipeline

How to monitor Azure Data Factory

January 15, 2021 by

In the previous articles of this series, we discussed how to perform different types of activities using Azure Data Factory. These tasks include copying data between different data stores, running SSIS packages and transforming data before writing it to a new data store.

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Template gallery

Using Templates in Azure Data Factory

January 8, 2021 by

In the previous articles of this Azure Data Factory series, we showed different scenarios in which we can take advantage of the Azure Data Factory in copying data from variant data stores and optionally transform the data before loading it to the destination datastore. In all examples that are provided in the previous articles, we created a new pipeline from scratch to achieve the required functionality.

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Azure Portal Search

Starting your journey with Microsoft Azure Data Factory

October 21, 2020 by

Working as an Azure Data Engineer, you are responsible for designing and implementing Azure data platform solutions in which you need to choose the best method to ingest structured, semi-structured and unstructured data that are generated from various data sources, in order to be processed in batches or in real-time by the applications and stored or visualized as per the project requirements.

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Data Engineer Interview Questions and Answers: SQL Workload Migration to Microsoft Azure Database Platforms

August 13, 2020 by

In this article, we will discuss a number of questions that you may face when being interviewed to a Microsoft Azure Data Engineer position. These questions will focus on the process of migrating the SQL Server databases from the on-premises instances to the Microsoft Azure database services.

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Backup to URL

Migrating SQL workloads to Microsoft Azure: Databases trip to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance

August 5, 2020 by

In the previous two trips of this articles series, databases trip to SQL Server on Azure VM and to Azure SQL Database, we discussed the benefits of migrating your on-premises SQL Server databases to the Microsoft Azure database platforms and the methods that can be followed to migrate the on-premises databases to the Azure database platforms.

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Create SQL Virtual Machine

Migrating SQL workloads to Microsoft Azure: Databases Trip to SQL Server on Azure VM

July 31, 2020 by

In the previous articles of this series, we built the bridge that leads us to the best way of migrating our SQL workload to Microsoft Azure, by showing how to create the databases migration strategy that contains a deep study of the current environment and the available options in Azure to replace the on-premises setup, which we tried to make it easier by providing all Azure database services and the workload that fits each service, and finally, we introduced several Microsoft tools and services that can be used to assess the current setup, provide migration guidance steps and migrate the databases to Microsoft Azure services with the minimal downtime.

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Assess and Migrate Databases

Migrating SQL workloads to Microsoft Azure: Assessment and Migration Tools

July 31, 2020 by

In the previous articles of this series we discussed how to draw the initial strategy when planning to migrate the SQL workload to Microsoft Azure, the different database target platforms provided by Microsoft Azure that can be used as a migration target, based on the workload type, and finally, we went through some tools that help in discovering and assessing the on-premises environment by identifying the migration blocking issues and providing guidance steps for the migration process.

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Migrate a SQL database

Migrating SQL workloads to Microsoft Azure: Guidance and Assessment Tools

July 30, 2020 by

In the previous articles, Migrating SQL workloads to Microsoft Azure: Planning the jump and Migrating SQL workloads to Microsoft Azure: Services Selection, we discussed the steps that you should follow when you start thinking loudly that you need to migrate your SQL workload to Azure, by checking your on-prem site and the available services and features in Azure that meet your workload handling requirements. After that, we went through different database services provided by Azure and which one fits a specific workload, in order to make it easy for you to translate the current workload as an Azure service.

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Azure SQL Database

Migrating SQL workloads to Microsoft Azure: Services Selection

July 28, 2020 by

In the previous article, Migrating SQL workloads to Microsoft Azure: Planning the jump, we discussed the main points that should be checked and considered while drawing your plan to migrate the SQL workload from the on-premises datacenters to Microsoft Azure. In this article, we will go through the different database services that are provided by Microsoft Azure to help you in selecting the proper service that can serve your SQL workload when migrating it to Microsoft Azure.

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