Azure SQL Devs’ Corner

Azure SQL & .bacpac the easy way

Davide MauriAugust 31, 2020Aug 31, 202008/31/20

Restoring an Azure SQL database in one - well three - simple scripts: one with Powershell, one with AZ CLI + Bash and one using the ubiquitous SqlPackage

Developing in the cloud with SQL Server Big Data Clusters: Run and Monitor Apps

Melony QinAugust 21, 2020Aug 21, 202008/21/20

As the last part of the series of working with big data analytics solutions in Kubernetes, we learned about how to work with cloud-native applications with BDC. Operating and testing are also essential parts as an enterprise-grade solution. This article will walk you through how to run and monitoring apps to SQL Server Big Data Clusters (...

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 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 Clusters...

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

Serverless Synapse SQL pool 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 serverless SQL query endpoint. This technique 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