SQL Azure

Ahmad Yaseen

My journey to PASS Summit 2016 via SQL Shack

October 3, 2016 by

My name is Ahmad Yaseen and I am a senior SQL Server database administrator at Aramex International Company for more than six years, where I started building my experience in the SQL Server administration field. Being a SQL Server Database administrator in such big company is not that easy, as the difficulties that you may face is not only at the beginning. What makes the DBA job special is that it is a very deep job, in which you will learn new things, have to solve new problems, fall in strange situations and be under pressure every day, but it is an interesting job for me.

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Kaloyan Kosev

How to migrate an on premise SQL Server database to Azure

September 27, 2016 by

Lately, database administrators often hear the question “have you tried Azure?“ or “can we use Azure for some of our databases?“. For me it was hard to answer these questions at first, but after a while I got to know what is really important behind these situations. In fact, what really matters is assessing the current environment, calculating the most suitable pricing tier and preparing a smooth migration.

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Miroslav Dimitrov

SQL Server stretch databases – Moving your “cold” data to the Cloud

August 18, 2016 by

Tons of new and exciting features have been introduced with the release of the latest SQL Server 2016. It simply is faster, better and more reliable! 🙂 As with the last several releases, there are again a lot of improvements with regards to the integration between on-premises databases and databases sitting into the Cloud. The ultimate goal is to have as convenient and easy as possible migration of the data in both directions. Today’s focus will be one of those features: Stretched Databases. Fasten your seatbelts and discover what is beneath this term!

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Jean-Pierre Voogt

Storing Twitter feeds with Microsoft Flow in Azure SQL Database

June 29, 2016 by

A couple of weeks ago I got this idea to capture twitter feeds and store it in a relational database structure. I wanted to be able to do some trend analysis, to see what days certain hashtags get used more than other as well as to be able to go back to certain tweets and see what I can learn from them. I tried to get the Twitter API to work for me, but had no luck. So I came across Microsoft Flow which seems to make this process very easy.

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Jean-Pierre Voogt

Stretching temporal history tables in SQL Server 2016

June 20, 2016 by

Background

With the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 a lot of new features were introduced, one of which was Temporal Tables, a feature that gives you the ability to view the state of your data at a given point in time. This means you can go back in time with your data. Another very popular feature is Stretch Databases which allows for remote archiving of data to Azure Stretch region.

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Daniel Calbimonte

Azure Cosmos DB from zero to 10 minutes

May 10, 2016 by

Introduction

In our last chapter, we talked about Cosmos DB, which is available in Azure and explained that it is an Azure Database used to store NoSQL documents.

In this new article, we will show how to create and query the database from zero. The only requirement is to have an Azure Account. If you have an Azure account, this tutorial will take you just 10 minutes (if not, you can complain in the comments section below 😉 ).

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Daniel Calbimonte

The new elastic databases in Azure

April 12, 2016 by

Introduction

The elastic database is a new feature offered for SQL Azure Databases. Elastic databases are useful when you have several databases and you want to monitor and manage all the databases at the same time. To do this, a pool is required. The pool allows handling several databases at the same time.

In this chapter, we will learn how to create the pool and add SQL Azure Databases to it.

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Kenneth M. Nielsen

Using SQL Server 2016 CTP3 in Azure

November 6, 2015 by

As the time of the release of the next version of SQL Server is closing in, the cycle of Community Technical Preview (CTP) releases is shorter and shorter – we are now at CTP3 and the product seems very much mature for release. There is a handful of features not yet implemented, that was on the roadmap – but I bet you the SQL Team will go an extra length to get the features ready for the final release.

This post will show you how to get started with testing/using the newest version of the CTP.

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Daniel Calbimonte

How to connect our C# application in Azure

October 30, 2015 by

Azure is a simple and cheap way to have a Database. You can rent your Azure Database of 2 GB per 5 USD per month. That is a very cheap price. You can also administer your Database from your Android or your iPhone, which is very interesting.

It is also possible to create your Windows Application using Visual Studio and connect to SQL Azure. In this new chapter, we are going to create Windows application in C# and connect to a SQL Azure database. We are going to retrieve the information of a table stored in Azure in our Windows application.

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Daniel Calbimonte

How to work with Visual Studio and VM databases in Azure

September 24, 2015 by

Introduction

In this new article, we will use Visual Studio to connect to a SQL Server Database Installed in a Virtual Machine in Azure.

Visual Studio is one of the most popular development tools in the world and connecting to Azure with Visual Studio is a very common need.

We will modify an existing SQL Server table in Azure from Visual Studio. Later we will create a stored procedure and finally, we will create an inline table-valued function.

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Murilo Miranda

Cloud Witness – A new feature to make our lives easier

September 4, 2015 by

In order to have a well-configured cluster we need to setup the quorum properly, but there’s more…Here is where the Cloud Witness comes to help.

In this article, I’m going to present something that would be very useful if was already been released, but no, I need to anxiously wait for the next version of Windows Server to be released, in order to start implementing this. Even though, I’m going to share with you, SQL Shack reader, why I’m so excited with that small and simple feature.

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Daniel Calbimonte

Using MS Excel to access to a relational SQL Database in Azure

August 14, 2015 by

Introduction

There are great Microsoft tools to access to SQL Server in Azure. However, as a Database Developers and Administrators we need to help the end user to access to the information using a familiar and intuitive interface.

Most of the end users have a good knowledge in MS Excel. That is why it is recommended to connect our SQL Azure database to Excel. That way, the end user will be able to easily create reports, charts and generate useful information.

In this chapter, we will show how to connect to SQL Azure using Microsoft Excel.

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Brian Bønk Rueløkke

The DBAs guide to stretch database

August 11, 2015 by

One of the new features in SQL Server 2016 – and there is a lot – is the ability to stretch the on premise databases to an Azure environment.

This blogpost will cover some of the aspects of this – including:

  • Primarily setup – how to get started
  • Monitoring state of databases that are in ‘stretch mode’
  • Daily work with stretch databases
  • Backup – what’s good to know
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