Lambda Architecture for IoT and Big Data Systems
Lambda Architecture is a data processing design pattern designed for Big Data systems that need to process data in near real-time. This pattern works very…
Azure Data & Storage
Microsoft Azure offers a variety of Database and Storage services in the cloud. This includes Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL & MySQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and more!
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Top 13 Cosmos DB Features Coming Soon as of March 2019
Azure DocumentDB, ahem… I mean Azure Cosmos DB is the globally distributed, highly available, NoSQL, database-as-a-service offering from Microsoft. The service boasts lots of really…
70-475 Big Data Analytics Exam – Feb 2017 Update (RETIRED)
The 70-475 Designing and Implementing Big Data Analytics Solutions certification exam was first published Oct. 27, 2015. Many features and services in the Microsoft Azure…
70-473 Cloud Data Platform Solutions Exam – June 2017 Update (RETIRED)
The 70-473 Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions certification exam was first published Oct. 27, 2015. A lot of things with Microsoft Azure have…
Designing Globally Resilient Apps with Azure App Service and Cosmos DB
It’s so quick and easy to deploy an application out into Microsoft Azure and make it available for anyone in the world to use. It’s…
Azure CLI: Generate SAS Token for Blob in Azure Storage
Azure Storage is a cloud service at the very center of Microsoft Azure. It provides the foundations for storing data in many services and systems…
Azure CLI: Reset Azure SQL Database Password
The Azure SQL Database service allows you to set an Admin login and password when you provision a database server in the service. However, if…
CosmosDB: The New DocumentDB NoSQL Database in Microsoft Azure
DocumentDB has been around for awhile now in Microsoft Azure. It’s a Document based, NoSQL database in the cloud. There’s been tons of advancements to…
Create Azure SQL Database in the Azure Portal
Here’s a short video that shows you how to create an Azure SQL Database in the Azure Portal. It also explains how to connect to…
Free eBook: Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016
It’s a new world of Big Data and Data Science. SQL Server 2016 was built for this brand new world to help businesses get ahead.…
Static Website Hosting in Azure Storage
Traditional shared hosting providers generally cost anywhere between $8 – $10 USD per month. The reason is you need to reserve some CPU and Memory…
Migrate Between Azure SQL Database and SQL Server
For years it’s been difficult to migrate a database that was built in SQL Server to Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Originally, the T-SQL support in…
Free eBook: Introducing Microsoft Power BI
Want to get started with Power BI, but don’t know where to start? The “Introducing Microsoft Power BI” free eBook from Microsoft Press may be…
Azure Infographic: SharePoint with SQL Server AlwaysOn (2016)
The Deploy SharePoint with SQL Server AlwaysOn infographic from Microsoft provides a really good visual representation of how to design a SharePoint solution in Microsoft…
Azure Infographic: SQL Server 2016
The SQL Server 2016 infographic provides a visual overview of SQL Server 2016 features: on-premises, in the cloud, and in between. How can your current…
Free eBook: Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure
The “Microsoft Azure Essentials: Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure” book written by Carl Rabeler has been made a free eBook by Microsoft Press. This…
Azure Storage Explorer now supports Linux and more
When the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer was first released, it did seem a little odd that Microsoft would neglect supporting Linux. However, they did support…
DocumentDB moving to Regional Pricing Meters on Feb. 1
On February 1st, 2016, Microsoft Azure DocumentDB bill be transitioning away from a Global Pricing Meter to be on Regional Pricing Meters instead. With Global…
Using Azure Storage Queues from C# and .NET Framework
Azure Storage Queues provide an easy to implement messaging communication mechanism for reliably passing messages to/from different components of a single application or multiple applications.…
Azure Storage Explorer
The new Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer provides a GUI interface for managing Azure Storage from both Windows and Mac OS X. Rather than build this…