Arvind Shyamsundar

Solving the River Crossing problem with SQL Graph

January 21st, 2021

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!

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

December 11th, 2020

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.

Continuous Delivery for Azure SQL DB using Azure DevOps Multi-stage Pipelines

October 28th, 2020

Multi-stage pipelines in Azure DevOps offer a rich, declarative, YAML-based mechanism to implement and customize Continuous Delivery for Azure SQL.

DevOps for Azure SQL

May 20th, 2020

DevOps is a broad term with multiple technology and process options at hand. Read this post for an overview of what DevOps for Azure SQL means, and review some options for tools and processes to use.