Azure SQL for Beginners – Video Playlist

August 13, 2020 Aug 13, 2020 08/13/20
Davide Mauri
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

August 6, 2020 Aug 6, 2020 08/6/20
Melony Qin
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...

Querying and visualizing data using SQLPad

June 30, 2020 Jun 30, 2020 06/30/20
Davide Mauri
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.

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.0.0 is now available

June 19, 2020 Jun 19, 2020 06/19/20
Davide Mauri
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!

June 16, 2020 Jun 16, 2020 06/16/20
Silvano Coriani
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!

June 10, 2020 Jun 10, 2020 06/10/20
Silvano Coriani
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...