Azure SQL Devs’ Corner

Solving the River Crossing problem with SQL Graph

January 21, 2021 Jan 21, 2021 01/21/21

Arvind Shyamsundar

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

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

Davide Mauri

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

December 14, 2020 Dec 14, 2020 12/14/20

Drew Skwiers-Koballa

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

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

Arvind Shyamsundar

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

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

Jovan Popovic

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 amounts of data placed on Azure.

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

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

Davide Mauri

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

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

Davide Mauri

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...

Seasons of Serverless Challenge 1: Azure Functions and Azure SQL Database serverless

November 30, 2020 Nov 30, 2020 11/30/20

Drew Skwiers-Koballa

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 with Challenge 1 of the Seasons of Serverless challenge.

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

October 28, 2020 Oct 28, 2020 10/28/20

Arvind Shyamsundar

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

Testing performance of Azure SQL Database as a key-value store

October 20, 2020 Oct 20, 2020 10/20/20

Dimitri Furman

Executive summary Our testing shows that Azure SQL Database can be used as a highly scalable low latency key-value store. Starting with a cost-efficient 4-core General Purpose database, we see an order of magnitude increase in workload throughput as we increase dataset size by 100x and scale across the spectrum of database SKUs to a Business ...