Azure SQL Database is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that offers managed database service. Azure DB provides many features such as automatic database tuning, vulnerability assessment, automated patching, performance tuning, alerts. It provides a 99.995% availability SLA for the Zone redundant database in the business-critical service tier.
Read more »Migrating on-premises databases to Azure SQL Database in Azure Data Studio
June 23, 2021This article teaches how to migrate a lightweight on-premises SQL database to an Azure SQL database using Azure Data Studio.
Read more »GROUP BY ROLLUP for Data Analysis
June 23, 2021Introduction
In this article, we are looking at T-SQL commands of GROUP BY ROLLUP to aggregate data and improve the data analytical capabilities in SQL Server.
Read more »Creating and Cataloging SQL pools in Azure SQL Server
June 22, 2021This article will walk you through creating a new SQL pool within an existing Azure SQL Server as well as catalog the same using the Azure Purview service.
Read more »Query Store Hints in Azure SQL Database
June 22, 2021This article explores the recently announced preview feature of Azure SQL Database – Query Store Hints.
Read more »SELECT INTO TEMP TABLE statement in SQL Server
June 21, 2021In this article, we will explore the SELECT INTO TEMP TABLE statement, its syntax and usage details and also will give some simple basic examples to reinforce the learnings.
Read more »Azure Data Explorer and the Kusto Query Language
June 21, 2021Introduction
Microsoft Azure Data Explorer handles and analyzes petabyte-masses of structured and unstructured data. In Azure Data Explorer, users lever the Kusto query language (KQL) for their data analysis work. This article, part one of a two-part article, will introduce KQL. This article will also describe a free Microsoft online interactive resource that allows for hands-on Kusto exploration and learning. Part two will describe more aspects of KQL, and use those aspects to solve a real-world data problem.
Read more »Learn NoSQL in Azure: An overview of Azure Cosmos DB
June 16, 2021In this article, we are going to learn Azure Cosmos DB. This article is a part of the series Learn NoSQL in Azure, where we will explore all the different types of non-relational databases that are supported in Azure at the moment. Azure is one of the most popular public cloud platforms that has a big market share all over the world. Cosmos DB is a part of the Databases section in Azure that allows customers to create and use NoSQL or non-relational databases and consume these at scale. You can leverage Cosmos DB to build highly scalable and robust cloud-based applications that support modern big data workloads. Let us understand more about what a NoSQL database is all about and how it is different from a relational database. Although this article focuses on the NoSQL related to Azure, it is to be known that other open-source projects support NoSQL databases like Apache Cassandra, etc. However, these topics are out of the scope of this article and we will focus on Azure mostly.
Read more »Azure Automation: Azure Logic Apps for face recognition and insert its data into Azure SQL Database
June 15, 2021Today, we will implement an Azure Logic App for face recognition and insert its data into an Azure SQL database.
Read more »Usage details of the SET STATISTICS TIME ON statement in SQL Server
June 14, 2021With the help of the SET STATISTICS TIME ON statement, we can easily report the execution time statistics of a query. In this article, we will learn how to report the query execution time statistics through this statement.
Read more »Integrating Azure Purview with Azure Synapse Analytics
June 14, 2021In this article, we will learn how to integrate Azure Purview and Azure Synapse Analytics capabilities to access data catalog assets hosted in Purview from Azure Synapse.
Read more »Database interview questions
June 11, 2021Introduction
If you are applying to a new DBA job or a job that requires database knowledge, you probably want to study the most common questions in an interview. If that is your case, this article may be useful. The article contains typical questions about databases. The database interview questions that are typical are the following:
Read more »An overview of PGAdmin – PostgreSQL Management Tool
June 10, 2021In this article, we are going to learn about PGAdmin, a PostgreSQL management tool. As you are aware SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and the MySQL Workbench are the GUI management tools for SQL Server and MySQL respectively. Similarly, in order to manage the Postgres database and its services, PGAdmin is used. PGAdmin is a web-based GUI tool used to interact with the Postgres database sessions, both locally and remote servers as well. You can use PGAdmin to perform any sort of database administration required for a Postgres database.
Read more »Migrating SQL Server graph databases to ArangoDB
June 10, 2021This article will explain ArangoDB, how to install it on Windows, and how to migrate a SQL Server graph database to this NoSQL database management system.
Read more »Azure Automation: Translate documents into different languages using Cognitive Services with Azure Logic Apps
June 9, 2021Suppose you write a technical blog in the English language for your website. You have good followers in a country where the primary language is not English. You want to translate the document content in their native language for a wider reach.
Read more »Using the DB Snapshot Creator Extension in Azure Data Studio
June 8, 2021This article talks about the steps required to add and use the DB Snapshot Creator extension in Azure Data Studio.
Read more »ALTER DATABASE SET SINGLE_USER statement in SQL Server
June 7, 2021In this article, we are going to explore the purpose of the ALTER DATABASE SET SINGLE_USER statement. The ALTER DATABASE SET SINGLE_USER is used to put the database in single-user mode. When any database is in single-user mode, the new user cannot connect to the database. However, the users that are already connected to the database do not get disconnected.
Read more »Cataloging AWS S3 datasets with Azure Purview
June 2, 2021In this article, we will learn how to configure Azure Purview to catalog data hosted in AWS S3.
Read more »Azure Automation: Export Azure SQL database data to CSV files using Azure Logic Apps
June 1, 2021This article uses Azure automation techniques for sending query results as a CSV file attachment in Azure SQL Database by using Azure logic apps.
Read more »SQL Server Deadlocks with Foreign Keys
May 27, 2021In this article, we will try to find out the answer to the question of “Does a foreign key lead to a deadlock?”
Read more »Install and upgrade PostgreSQL to support Spatial Data
May 26, 2021Spatial data deals with data related to geography. In this article, we are going to understand the various concepts related to geographic or spatial data and how PostgreSQL can be leveraged as a database to store such geographic information. As you might be already aware, PostgreSQL is a popular and widely used open-source relational database management system that can handle production workloads very easily. With the availability of the cloud, you can quickly spin up instances of Postgres on major public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
Read more »Accessing Azure Database for PostgreSQL using pgAdmin
May 26, 2021In this article, we will show how to connect to instances of Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers using the pgAdmin tool installed locally on a user’s workstation.
Read more »Azure Automation: Publish LinkedIn posts and tweets automatically using Azure Logic Apps
May 25, 2021This article implements Azure Automation logic for automatically publishing a LinkedIn post and Twitter’s Tweet using the simplified Azure Logic App.
Read more »Querying JSON documents in Azure Cosmos DB using the SQL API
May 21, 2021In this article, we will look briefly at the Azure Cosmos DB service and how you can query JSON documents to store, retrieve and process data using the SQL Application Programming Interface (API).
Read more »Declarative Database Development in Azure Data Studio
May 19, 2021This article is all about declarative database development using Azure Data Studio for both beginners and professionals who are new to it.
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