Camilo Reyes in AWS

AWS Lambdas with C#

Serverless computing is pushing C# to evolve to the next level. This is exciting because you pay-per-use and only incur...

25 January 2023 14 min read

Azure

Dennes Torres in Azure

Azure Function and User Assigned Managed Identities

Let’s talk about authentication between Azure Functions and resources used by Azure Functions and conclude with many poorly documented secrets...

03 January 2023 16 min read

BI

Dennes Torres in BI

How to automate table level refresh in Power BI

You can automate Power BI table refreshes using PowerShell, an Automation Account, and Runbook. Dennes Torres explains how in this...

18 April 2022 14 min read

Azure

Dennes Torres in Azure

Eight Azure SQL configurations you may have missed

Azure SQL Database has been around for over ten years and is constantly evolving with new capabilities and options. Dennes...

07 February 2022 12 min read

Big Data

Robert Sheldon in Big Data

Data lakes take on big data

A data lake is a scalable data storage repository that can ingest large amounts of raw data and make it...

10 January 2022 16 min read

Azure

Mike Wood in Azure

Azure Policies and Management Groups

You can define policies for your Azure SQL Databases for security and meeting your organization’s standards. Management groups simplify policies...

13 December 2021 11 min read

Azure

Dennes Torres in Azure

Performance of querying blob storage with SQL

It’s possible to query blob storage using SQL, but what about performance? In this article, Dennes Torres compares several query...

21 October 2021 14 min read

Security

Robert Sheldon in Security

Cybersecurity threats

Not a week goes by without news of a new cyberattack. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains the cybersecurity threats...

30 September 2021 12 min read

Azure

Robert Sheldon in Azure

The Azure SQL portfolio

Microsoft provides many ways to run SQL Server in Azure, but which do you choose? In this article, Robert Sheldon...

01 September 2021 14 min read

Azure

Dennes Torres in Azure

How to query private blob storage with SQL and Azure Synapse

Azure storage can be marked Private to control access. Dennes Torres explains how to query private blob storage with SQL...

21 July 2021 17 min read

Editorials

Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials

How to learn about Azure SQL

It was always important to me to keep up with the latest versions of SQL Server, but especially so when...

09 July 2021 3 min read

Azure

Dennes Torres in Azure

How to query blob storage with SQL using Azure Synapse

How do you include blob storage in reports? In this article Dennes Torres explains how to query blob storage with...

01 July 2021 17 min read

Azure

Mahendran Purushothaman in Azure

Autoscaling in Microsoft Azure

The ability to scale up and down without maintaining extra hardware is one of the best cloud computing features. In...

16 June 2021 10 min read

Tools

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Automating Azure DevOps with Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps can be used to automate steps like sending approval emails. Elie Bou Issa explains automating Azure DevOps...

15 April 2021 12 min read

.NET

Amit Jambusaria in .NET

Google Firebase for serverless front-end applications

Google Firebase is a PaaS offering for developing web and mobile apps. Amit Jambusaria explains the advantages and walks through...

19 January 2021 10 min read

Azure

Diogo Souza in Azure

Static hosting with Azure Blob Storage and Azure CDN

No matter what you need, Azure probably has a solution. In this article Diogo Souza demonstrates how to host a...

25 September 2020 8 min read

Infrastructure as a Service

Dennes Torres in Infrastructure as a Service

Let’s move: Azure Resource Mover

Moving resources from one location to another in Azure has been possible but not easy to do. In this article,...

24 September 2020 16 min read

BI

Rodney Landrum in BI

Azure Data Factory pipelines: Filling in the gaps

Azure Data Factory is a cloud based data orchestration tool that many ETL developers began using instead of SSIS. In...

18 September 2020 17 min read

Oracle

Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman in Oracle

What is Oracle ASM to Azure IaaS?

Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman explains Oracle Automatic Storage Management and why it’s impossible to do a comparison to Azure IaaS.…

14 September 2020 11 min read

Containers and Virtualization

Mahendran Purushothaman in Containers and Virtualization

Running Container Workloads in Microsoft Azure

Containers are being used by more and more organizations to automate build pipelines in their CICD processes. In this article,...

01 September 2020 14 min read

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AWS Lambdas with C#

Azure Function and User Assigned Managed Identities

How to automate table level refresh in Power BI

Eight Azure SQL configurations you may have missed

Data lakes take on big data

Azure Policies and Management Groups

Performance of querying blob storage with SQL

Cybersecurity threats

The Azure SQL portfolio

How to query private blob storage with SQL and Azure Synapse

How to learn about Azure SQL

How to query blob storage with SQL using Azure Synapse

Autoscaling in Microsoft Azure

Automating Azure DevOps with Logic Apps

Google Firebase for serverless front-end applications

Static hosting with Azure Blob Storage and Azure CDN

Let’s move: Azure Resource Mover

Azure Data Factory pipelines: Filling in the gaps

What is Oracle ASM to Azure IaaS?

Running Container Workloads in Microsoft Azure