Azure SQL Devs’ Corner

Considerations of Data Partitioning on Spark during Data Loading on Clustered Columnstore Index

Sumit March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

This article showcases how to take advantage of a highly distributed framework provided by spark engine, to load data into a Clustered Columnstore Index of a relational database like SQL Server or Azure SQL Database, by carefully partitioning the data before insertion.

The “insert if not exists” challenge: a solution

Davide Mauri February 16, 2021 Feb 16, 2021 02/16/21

How to solve the common problem of "insert-if-not-exists" in a very elegant, clever and scalable way.

The Positive Impact of Intelligent Query Processing

Kate Smith February 8, 2021 Feb 8, 2021 02/8/21

An overview of Azure SQL and SQL Server's Intelligent Query Processing and how it positively impacts developers.

Solving the River Crossing problem with SQL Graph

Arvind Shyamsundar January 21, 2021 Jan 21, 2021 01/21/21

Graph theory and associated techniques are extremely powerful. Azure SQL allows native representation of graphs as node and edge tables, and provides breadth-first-search traversal for native path finding. This blog post demonstrates the ease of use, and great power of, these features by using them to solve the classic river crossing riddle!

Modern development: creating a REST API, via CI/CD and back

Davide Mauri January 4, 2021 Jan 4, 2021 01/4/21

Video and sample code to create a end-to-end REST solution with Azure SQL, from zero to the CI/CD pipeline, with Unit Testing too!

Seasons of Serverless Challenge 3: Azure TypeScript Functions and Azure SQL Database serverless

Drew Skwiers-Koballa December 14, 2020 Dec 14, 2020 12/14/20

Throughout the next seven weeks we'll be sharing a solution to the week's Seasons of Serverless challenge that integrates Azure SQL Database serverless with Azure serverless compute. Learn how to develop an Azure Function that leverages Azure SQL database serverless and TypeScript with Challenge 3 of the Seasons of Serverless challenge.

Programmatically parsing Transact SQL (T-SQL) with the ScriptDom parser

Arvind Shyamsundar December 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020 12/11/20

Azure SQL developers have access to a full-fidelity, highly accurate, and easy-to-use client-side parser for T-SQL statements: the TransactSql.ScriptDom parser. This blog post walks through basic usage, and links to a number of resources for digging deeper.

Azure SQL can read Azure Data Lake storage files using Synapse SQL external tables

Jovan Popovic December 10, 2020 Dec 10, 2020 12/10/20

Serverless Synapse SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics is a T-SQL query engine that enables you to read the files placed on Azure storage. You can easily integrate your Azure SQL engine with Synapse SQL to delegate big data analytics and analyze large amount of data placed on Azure.

Using an Azure Container Instance to convert a BAK to BACPAC for Import into Azure SQL Database

Davide Mauri December 9, 2020 Dec 9, 2020 12/9/20

Importing a SQL Server backup into an Azure SQL Database is not a trivial task. Here's how to automate the process of converting a .bak to .bacpac file using Docker Containers, Powershell and some automation.

Autoscaling with Azure SQL Hyperscale

Davide Mauri December 3, 2020 Dec 3, 2020 12/3/20

Azure SQL Hyperscale is the latest architectural evolution of Azure SQL, which has been natively designed to take advantage of the cloud. One of the main key features of this new architecture is the complete separation of Compute Nodes and Storage Nodes. This allows for the independent scale of each service, making Hyperscale more flexible and...