Azure SQL Devs’ Corner

Developing in the cloud with SQL Server Big Data Clusters: Develop and Deploy Apps

Melony QinAugust 14, 2020Aug 14, 202008/14/20

Kubernetes is designed to support an open platform to support a diverse variety of containerized workloads including both stateless and stateful and data-processing workloads. Technically any application can be containerized, it can be up and running in Kubernetes. As a cloud-native platform, Kubernetes is available to deploy cloud-native ...

Azure SQL for Beginners – Video Playlist

Davide MauriAugust 13, 2020Aug 13, 202008/13/20

Easily translate your SQL Server skills and experience to Azure SQL - using familiar tools and techniques. Insiders Bob Ward and Anna Hoffman walk you through configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting database security, performance, and availability in this Azure SQL video series on more than 60 topics.

Developing in the cloud with SQL Server Big Data Clusters: Getting Started

Melony QinAugust 6, 2020Aug 6, 202008/6/20

When it comes to innovation, we realized that the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. One of the biggest big challenges we’re having today is how to integrate disparate data sources from many different places. If you're looking into how to work on Big Data Analytics solutions in Kubernetes, that's where Big Data ...

Architecting REST API with Python, Flask and Azure SQL

Davide MauriJuly 22, 2020Jul 22, 202007/22/20

Creating REST API with Azure SQL is never been easier thanks to its native JSON support. Let's see how we can use Python and Flask to create an elegant and modern solution to serve REST API to the world

Preview of Azure Arc enabled SQL Server is now available

Alexander (Sasha) NosovJuly 2, 2020Jul 2, 202007/2/20

The preview allows you to track the inventory of your SQL Server instances across on-premises, edge sites, and multi-cloud in a single view. You can also use Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel to protect your SQL server using advanced data security features.

Querying and visualizing data using SQLPad

Davide MauriJune 30, 2020Jun 30, 202006/30/20

SQLPad is an amazing free, open source, tool to run SQL Queries against a broad spectrum of popular databases, without the need to install and run something on-premises. It's lightweight, simple and just perfect if you need a no-frills tool to query and visualize data, to do some data exploration.

Use Linked server to Synapse SQL to implement Polybase-like scenarios in Managed Instance

Jovan PopovicJune 24, 2020Jun 24, 202006/24/20

Azure Synapse SQL enables you to query files on Azure Data Lake Storage. Azure SQL Managed Instance can use linked servers to query data on Azure Storage using Synapse Analytics SQL serverless query endpoint. Synapse Analytics accessed via linked server may be good solution for some Polybase-like scenarios.

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.0.0 is now available

Davide MauriJune 19, 2020Jun 19, 202006/19/20

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient version 2.0.0 has been released, with several interesting features. Make sure you check it out if you are a .NET developer and you are using Azure SQL or SQL Server in your solutions. Microsoft.Data.SqlClient is the new, open source, official data access library that replaces System.Data.SqlClient

Go Azure SQL!

Silvano CorianiJune 16, 2020Jun 16, 202006/16/20

Go is a very popular programming language for developing microservices, Web APIs and other server-side applications, and Azure SQL can definitely be an option where to persist data for these applications in a scalable, reliable and modern way leveraging Microsoft SQL Server Driver for Go and ORM packages like Gorm. Give it a try!

JSON in your Azure SQL Database? Let’s benchmark some options!

Silvano CorianiJune 10, 2020Jun 10, 202006/10/20

Introduction Storing and retrieving data from JSON fragments is a common need in many application scenarios, like IoT solutions or microservice-based architectures. You can persist these fragments can be in a variety of data stores, from blob or file shares, to relational and non-relational databases, and there’s a long standing debate in...