Laerte Junior in Database Administration

Automating the Synchronization of RDS SQL Server Agent Jobs in a Multi-AZ Environment

Although Azure is the obvious Cloud service to host SQL Server, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server is...

27 June 2017 8 min read

Monitoring

Padmaja U.K

Tushar Jangle in Monitoring

Monitoring Azure Cloud and Hybrid Environments

Cloud-based services and applications must still be monitored just like the on-premise ones. You still need most of your data...

19 June 2017 11 min read

Christos Matskas

Getting What You Need From Azure Storage Disks

If you need persistent data disks for Azure IaaS VMs that are supported on both Windows and Linux then you...

22 May 2017 7 min read

Joshua Feierman

Azure Load Balancers and SQL Server

Load balancing in Azure has more importance for the DBA, because it is essential for Windows Server Failover Clustering in...

25 April 2017 11 min read

Christos Matskas

How to Secure Your Azure Storage Infrastructure

Azure storage is an essential foundation for the more sophisticated services that Microsoft Azure provides. It is therefore important to...

25 April 2017 8 min read

Christos Matskas

Working with the Azure Blob Storage Service

Azure Blob Storage is the essential foundation of most Azure services. It is important to understand how this service actually...

06 April 2017 11 min read

Joshua Feierman

Azure Networking for SQL Server DBAs

The network is important to any DBA because so much performance is dependent on I/O, because of the importance of...

27 March 2017 15 min read

Christos Matskas

Introduction to Azure Logic Apps

LogicApps are a managed service that provides the Lego blocks of Azure serverless architecture that you can use to create,...

07 March 2017 8 min read

Database Administration

Joshua Feierman in Database Administration

Exploring Azure Storage for SQL Server DBAs – Part 2

Managed Disks have simplified way that Azure storage interacts with the users' virtual machines, thanks to the way that it...

27 February 2017 15 min read

Azure

Christos Matskas in Azure

Serverless Architecture with Azure

Azure provides an ideal platform for hosting microservices because it offers a number of managed services that allow developers to...

24 February 2017 7 min read

.NET

Tom Fischer in .NET

Using AWS’s Simple Workflow Service (SWF) with C#

Amazon's Simple Workflow Service (SWF) in AWS provides a model of workflow that is simple to understand but is it...

12 January 2017 27 min read

Database Administration

Joshua Feierman in Database Administration

Exploring Azure Storage for SQL Server DBAs

If you need to run SQL Server in an Azure Virtual Machine, your choice of Azure storage will have a...

04 January 2017 14 min read

Bartosz Owczarek

Why Would I Ever Need to Partition My Big ‘Raw’ Data?

Whether you are running an RDBMS, or a Big Data system, it is important to consider your data-partitioning strategy. As...

04 October 2016 11 min read

Krzysztof Stanaszek

How to Start Big Data with Apache Spark

It is worth getting familiar with Apache Spark because it a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing and...

16 September 2016 15 min read

Platform as a Service

Robert Sheldon in Platform as a Service

Windows Containers and Docker

Windows Server 2016 features support for containers. These are not Linux-based, but containers that run on Windows and run Windows...

04 July 2016 11 min read

Robert Sheldon

The Logical Data Warehouse – Towards a Single View of All the Data

What is wrong with the Enterprise Data Warehouse? Quite a lot, it seems. By taking the narrow view that the...

09 November 2015 14 min read

Robert Sheldon

OpenStack: The Good and Not-So-Good Bits

OpenStack holds a great deal of promise as a cloud platform built on open standards, and has support from the...

03 September 2015 15 min read

Robert Sheldon

An Introduction to the OpenPOWER Foundation

In a bid to challenge Intel's dominance of high performance computing environments, IBM have introduced OpenPOWER, a flexible open-source framework...

03 August 2015 12 min read

Robert Sheldon

Microservices in Promise and Practice

Are microservices the cure for the ague of monolithic applications, or do they bring their own problems with them that...

13 April 2015 18 min read

Robert Sheldon

The Internet of Things: A New World Order?

Was the marketing hook 'The Internet of Things' conjured up before the technical definition? Are we being persuaded to spend...

10 March 2015 15 min read