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Last week I had some great timing for an Azure Synapse Analytics session. Because of a new Azure Purview integration functionality that appeared just before I was due to present it. New session Last Thursday I had to present a new session about using Azure DevOps with Azure Synapse Analytics. It was an interesting session … Read more
In this post I want to cover one way you can perform unit tests for an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL Pool. Because it can be useful. By the end of this post, you will know one way you can do unit tests for a dedicated SQL Pool. To clarify, an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated … Read more
In this post I want to do a 2020 edition of SQL Server related services in Azure. Since so much has changed since I last covered it last year. To recap, last year I did a video and post about SQL Server related services in Azure. You can read the post in detail here. Because … Read more
I want to cover deploying to multiple SQL Server database types using Azure DevOps faster. because I have done this recently. In fact, I done it for the pipeline I discussed in a previous post. Which was able to deploy updates to multiple database types after updating one single database project. You can read that … Read more
In this post I want to share some tips for deploying to multiple SQL Server database types using Azure DevOps. Because I’ve had a few questions about this. Live Demo To explain why I am doing this post I thought I better cover a demo I did last week. Last Monday myself and Sander Stad … Read more
I thought I would share my experience of recording my SQL Server related services in Azure video. For those of you who do not know, that was the title of the video I did as part of last year’s Azure Advent calendar. It was the first ever video like this I have filmed. I want … Read more
For this year’s Azure Advent Calendar, I decided to cover SQL Server related services in Azure. Because I like to think as myself as a member of both the Azure family and the Data Platform family, I wanted to cover a topic which would crossover between the two communities. Now, this post is one of … Read more