Amazon Aurora provides a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relation database with performance and feature enhancements over the existing databases. In the previous articles, we discussed the following features. You can refer to ToC at the bottom. Backtrack Global Database Amazon Aurora Serverless In this article, we will cover fast database cloning and its usage for […]
Introduction After discussing a few algorithms and techniques and comparison of models with Azure Machine Learning, let us discuss a validation technique, which is Cross-Validation in Azure Machine Learning in this article. During this series of articles, we have learned the basic cleaning techniques, feature selection techniques and Principal component analysis etc. After discussing Regression […]
In the previous article, How to schedule Azure Data Factory pipeline executions using Triggers, we discussed the three main types of the Azure Data Factory triggers, how to configure it then use it to schedule a pipeline.
In this article, we are going to learn how we can develop a T-SQL script to update statistics of tables based on the row modification. It is always a challenging task to perform maintenance on a table that has billions of rows. During the early years of my professional career, I was assigned a project […]
Introduction You might be thinking why do you want to create Azure SQL Database and what are the best configurations. This article will provide you with the basic configurations of the Azure SQL Database.
This article will help you learn to develop U-SQL jobs locally, which once ready, can be deployed on Azure Data Lake Analytics service on the Azure cloud.
In this article, we will learn how to execute U-SQL jobs that have been developed or tested locally, to the production environment from a local machine.
In this article, we will learn how to develop U-SQL jobs on Azure Data Lake Analytics to process data stored in Data Lake Storage.
Introduction Amazon offers managed database service for various database products such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle. In these relational database services (RDS), AWS manages the operating system, networking components, backups, monitoring solutions. In the previous articles, we explored many useful RDS features under the AWS RDS category on SQLShack.
The SQL Server execution plan (query plan) is a set of instructions that describes which process steps are performed while a query is executed by the database engine. The query plans are generated by the query optimizer and its essential goal is to generate the most efficient (optimum) and economical query plan. Some query plans […]
Gaining experience in SQL query tuning can be very difficult and complicated for database developers or administrators. For this reason, in this article, we will work on a case study and we are going to learn how we can tune its performance step by step. In this fashion, we will understand well how to approach […]
Azure SQL Database—a cloud-based service model provides a platform to back up the data and ensure to keep the business up-and-running even after the disaster. The data is vital and backup of the data revolves around the process of backup, restoration, recovery, Business-Continuity-Plans (BCP), and disaster recovery (DR). In this article, we will learn:
In this article, we will talk about the query tuning features that were announced with SQL Server 2019.
In this article, I am going to demonstrate in detail the Modular ETL Architecture. ETL is a vast concept which explains the methodology of moving data across various sources to destinations while performing some sort of transformations within it. This is an advanced article that considers that the user has a substantial amount of understanding […]
In this article, we will learn an approach to source data from AWS Redshift and populate it in the Azure SQL database, where this data can be used with other data on the SQL Server for desired purposes.
In this article, we will explore User-defined SQL Server Types and their usage.
In the previous article, Copy data between Azure data stores using Azure Data Factory, we discussed how to copy the data stored in an Azure Blob Storage container to an Azure SQL Database table using Azure Data Factory and review the created pipeline components and result.
In this article, we will uncover some secrets about the SQL Server tempdb database. Tempdb is a system database and it is used for various internal and user operations. Besides this, the tempdb has many unique characteristics, unlike the other databases. When we take into account all of these features of the tempdb, there is […]
In the previous article, Starting your journey with Microsoft Azure Data Factory, we discussed the main concept of the Azure Data Factory, described the Data Factory components and showed how to create a new Data Factory step by step.
In this article, we will install and configure SQL Server Linux (2017 version) on SUSE Linux in the Amazon EC2 Instance.
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 […]
The recent trend proves that the adoption of the Cloud has much greater significance and importance in modernizing IT. If you are working on migrating the on-premises SQL Server to Microsoft Azure cloud, you need to have a better understanding of the key differences between Azure SQL databases and SQL Server on Azure VMs and […]
This article will talk about loading data into Azure SQL databases from Azure Blob Storage with the help of Azure Data Factory.
This article will discuss one of the powerful analytics services in Azure – Azure Synapse Analytics, along with its components, features, security, and more.
In this article, we will learn the SQL Server clustered index concept and some internal details. Indexes are the database objects that accelerate the performance of data accessing when are designed properly. A clustered index is one of the main index types in SQL Server and the working principle is a bit complicated but in […]
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