Dennes Torres in Blogs

Azure Function & API Rate Limits: How NAT Gateway Helps You Stay Under the Radar

Rate limit is common when consuming API’s: They control how many calls you can make in an interval of time....

23 April 2025 4 min read

Dennes Torres in Blogs

Azure SQL Serverless: Discover What’s new and Increase Your Savings

Before jumping into the news and code, let’s start from the beginning: Why does someone use Azure SQL Serverless? The...

22 January 2025 3 min read

Koen Verbeeck in Azure

How To Embed Your Azure Logic Apps in a Metadata-driven Data Platform

In this article, I am going to explain how you can dial your productivity up to 11 when you’re dealing...

22 October 2024 27 min read

Koen Verbeeck in Azure

How To Use Managed Identities in your Azure Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps are a cloud-based service where you can create low code workflows to automate your business processes or...

18 September 2024 10 min read

Blogs

Louis Davidson in Blogs

Creating an Azure PostgreSQL cluster and connecting to it

One of the technologies that my new job brought with it was learning about all the various database platforms that...

04 November 2023 7 min read

Dennes Torres in Azure

Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouse and Data Factory in Power BI environment

Microsoft is merging Data Factory and Power BI Dataflows in one single ETL solution. It’s not a simple merging, but...

06 September 2023 12 min read

Dennes Torres in Blogs

Microsoft Fabric: Data Warehouse Ingestion using T-SQL and more

.In this blog I will illustrate how we can ingest data from a blob storage to a Microsoft Fabric Data...

24 May 2023 5 min read

Dennes Torres in Azure

Data Intelligence on light speed: Microsoft Fabric

This article is based on exciting information just released at Microsoft’s Build conference on May 23, 2023. What we have...

24 May 2023 11 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

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

Azure Synapse Serverless SQL: Querying Blob Storage with OPENROWSET – Filepath Filtering, Partitioning, Parquet vs CSV, and External Tables

Performance-tuning SQL queries against Azure Blob Storage using Synapse Serverless SQL pool - filepath filtering with the filepath() function, partition-based...

21 October 2021 14 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

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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

Elie Bou Issa in Tools

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

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