Aveek Das
Selecting Target Platform

Getting started with Data-Tier applications in Visual Studio

January 15, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to talk about creating a data-tier application using Visual Studio. In my previous article An introduction to Data-Tier applications in SQL Server, I have explained in detail what a data-tier application is all about. I have explained what the different types of data-tier applications are available and how can we create such applications from existing SQL Server databases. In this article, the primary focus would be to create data-tier applications from scratch using Visual Studio. For this article, I am going to use Visual Studio 2019, however, the technique will remain similar for other editions of SQL Server as well.

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Prashanth Jayaram
List the compute usage DTU

How to perform Azure SQL database Import/Export operations using PowerShell

January 14, 2021 by

In Azure, the Import/Export operation of the Azure SQL database is a vital part of the database migration methods. It is important to choose the most viable option as per the database migration strategy and business requirements. In addition, the applications that are configured with Azure SQL PaaS databases, the migration specialist could decide and identify several common scenarios where Azure PaaS database are scripted, copied, migrated, moved or backed up.

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Aveek Das
AWS IAM Service in AWS Management Console

An overview of AWS IAM

January 13, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to introduce the concept of AWS IAM, also known as Identity and Access Management in AWS. In any cloud service, controlling who has access to the services and how each of the services accesses the other services is an important task. If we do not control the access or restrict then there might be cases of a security breach within the services and we might not be able to track those as well. So as a best practice to restrict or control access within the AWS, there is a special service called IAM that can be used to manage and control almost everything in AWS. It is the permission control system that controls access to the various AWS resources and services.

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Dinesh Asanka
Usage of Classification with Clustering technique.

Clustering in Azure Machine Learning

January 13, 2021 by

Introduction

In this article, we will be discussing Clustering in Azure Machine Learning which is another machine learning technique such as Regression analysis, Classification analysis. During this article series, we have discussed the basic cleaning techniques, feature selection techniques and Principal component analysis, Comparing Models and Cross-Validation until today. We will introduce further few techniques that were not discussed before in this article as well. Previously, we have discussed how to perform clustering in SQL Server during the SQL Server Data Mining series.

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Rajendra Gupta
stores the content on a new page

Database Cloning in Amazon Aurora

January 11, 2021 by

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 aurora databases.

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Ahmad Yaseen
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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Aveek Das
Creating job step for OLAP Cube

Advanced Usages of SQL Server Agent

January 8, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to introduce some advanced usages of the SQL Server Agent service in Microsoft SQL Server. In my previous article, Introduction to SQL Server Agent, I have discussed in detail how to use the service and the various components related to the service. To recap briefly, the SQL Server Agent is a job scheduler service within SQL Server and allows us to schedule T-SQL scripts, SSIS jobs, automate database backups and other tasks etc. In the last article, I have shown how to schedule a simple T-SQL script using the SQL Server Agent. This article will focus more on advanced concepts like scheduling a package in SSIS and processing an OLAP cube.

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SQLShack

Best author award in 2020

January 5, 2021 by

2020 is finally over – and who’s not thankful for that? We most definitely are. Although 2020 was a total bummer ever since the COVID-19 outbreak, it was a great year for the SQLShack community. We’ve published a ton of great articles written by SQL Server professionals and community members.

We’d like to thank all of the authors for their contribution to spreading the knowledge around the SQL community. We couldn’t have done it without you all!

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Dinesh Asanka
Comparing models with the inclusion of Cross Validation in AML.

Cross Validation in Azure Machine Learning

January 4, 2021 by

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 analysis, Classification analysis and comparing models, let us focus now on performing Cross-Validation in Azure Machine Learning in order to evaluate models.

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Aveek Das
Creating the Azure Function App

Logging messages from Azure Functions to Azure SQL Database

December 25, 2020 by

In this article, I am going to explain how to create a serverless application using Azure Functions and use Azure SQL Database to log messages generated by the function. In this world of cloud-based applications, it is very important that you are aware of how to create and design serverless applications. An important aspect while designing any application is to generate log messages at every key step or operation that is being performed. This helps us to understand the workflow whenever there are some issues and need debugging at some later point in time.

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