I’m working on some personal .NET Core projects and I faced some strange errors. Ok, I’m too fresh on .NET Core and I expected this. What I was not expecting is to find problems with .NET Core folder structure no one would be able to correctly identify and in the end discover what I imagine … Read more
Microservices is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of services that are Highly maintainable and testable Loosely coupled Independently deployable Organized around business capabilities Owned by a small team The microservice architecture enables the rapid, frequent and reliable delivery of large, complex applications. It also enables an organization to evolve its … Read more
It’s been a while since I last wrote a new blog, and it has been a very long time since I last wrote a fresh new “What Counts For a DBA” entry. I celebrate this with a pun title. The last technical blog I wrote was scheduled to be published on March 19, 2021 and … Read more
You need to dig into old blogs I wrote before to fully understand how interesting this new extension is. On Saving Money with Log Analytics I mentioned how important log analytics is for azure clouds. This deserves more in depth analysis, which probably will be broken down in blog articles. On Connecting to Log Analytics using … Read more
What is EMR? Elastic MapReduce is an Amazon web service tool for big data processing and analysis. The MapReduce is a framework that allows programmers to process large scale data across distributed processors in parallel. Amazon EMR processes big data across a Hadoop cluster of virtual servers on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage … Read more
I was developing some personal .NET projects when I faced some problems. Probably they are usual problems during a .NET development, but I had to ask some questions on the .NET Community. Where could I ask some .NET questions? First place I looked for was TechCommunity. However, to my surprise, TechCommunity doesn’t have a hub … Read more
A fully managed Memorystore option is a default choice for serverless technologies, but it's not without limitations. In this post, Tushar Jangle and Dhananjay Hedaoo explain how they worked through the issues for their application.… Read more
What is Spark? Apache Spark is an analytics engine for large-scale data processing, with powerful built-in modules for data streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing. When working with large-scale data processing, the spark is the best analytics engine to work with. Apache Spark achieves high performance for both batch and streaming data and workloads can be … Read more
How do you list all the objects and values within a PowerShell object, investigate an object or explore its structure? There must be a simple way. I used to use ConvertTo-JSON. This is fine up to a point but what if you just wish to search for strings or look for objects with a cartain … Read more
Introduction MVC 4 introduced request bundling and minification techniques to reduce request load time. Bundling allows us to request a collection of static files from the server in one HTTP request. Bundling The technique of bundling is shown in the diagram below: Source – Loading script files in separate requests In the namespace System.web.Optimization, MVC … Read more
What is ngFor in Angular Template syntax? Angular makes use of HTML for templates associated with components that eventually represent the views of your front-end application. A component controls the part of the user’s application UI and the associated template is what gets rendered in that part of the User Interface of an Application. The … Read more
The Azure SQL Databases don’t give us access to the SQL Server Agent. Usually, we use SQL Server Agent to schedule jobs on premise, but in the cloud, we need a different solution. In the technical sessions I deliver I usually explain about Azure Automation and how we can create runbooks to execute scheduled tasks … Read more
This new feature was already being expected for a while. Out of the blue, while I was delivering an online class, there it was, looking to me. Waiting for me to figure out how it works and explain it to my students. Luckily, the feature is very simple: You click a checkbox and you will … Read more
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) and it is one of the most popular and powerful Database software used worldwide. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which may run either on the same computer … Read more
I have been very quiet lately. 3 months ago I had surgery, 2 weeks later I was back in the hospital with a bad infection and sepsis. A week later I was back after a life flight to the hospital. Another two weeks and I was back in the hospital again with another bad, but … Read more
Almost every environment now a days need to source data from different source system. Here is how you can establish connection using Attunity Connector from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle Database from SSIS. This method is extremely fast if you want to land millions and millions of records on the fly from Oracle to SQL Server. … Read more
Policies in Azure are like Wally. They are there, but not obvious to find, hidden in the middle of many services, waiting for someone recognize their importance. Why do we need Policies Billing The billing control in Azure has by itself many different reasons to enforce policies. You, with your single Azure subscription, may think … Read more
I have to deal with XML data with PowerShell. That’s fine, but I always find myself sighing when I need to read an XML object. I have a copy of ‘XML in a Nutshell’. It is over six hundred pages of essential information on XML. Some nutshell. XML is, I believe, a way of representing … Read more
Everyone needs deadlines. Even the beavers. They loaf around all summer, but when they are faced with the winter deadline, they work like fury. If we didn’t have deadlines, we’d stagnate. ― Walt Disney I hate deadlines. Really. I truly hate them. The problem is: they are usually unrealistic, often not much more than a wild … Read more
Log Analytics is a basic tool for the entire Azure environment, I wrote about it before. The possibility to access log analytics data from a tool for analysis, such as Power BI, only increases its importance. There are some options to make this access and we expect these options to improve very soon. Using Notebooks … Read more
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