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My T-SQL Tuesday contribution for this month is about the using Notebooks more with Azure Data Engineering services. Which is hosted this month by Steve Jones. Steve has invited us all to talk about how we have used, or would like to use, a Jupyter Notebook. You can find out more about the invite by … 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
My T-SQL contribution for this month is about my favourite SQL Server life hack. However, I will give some honourable mentions to others as well. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jess Pomfret. Jess invites us all to write about our favourite life hack. You can read more about the invite in detail by … 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
I’ve been looking back at last decade since so much has changed in the last ten years. Now I have looked for an official name for the last decade because I was curious. According to the Wikipedia article here it’s the twenty-tens, so I will stick with that for now. As far as technology is … Read more
At today’s Microsoft Ignite conference SQL Server 2019 was officially released. As some of you are aware SQL Server Release Candidate 1.1 has been around for some time now. In addition, last week I noticed that the SQL Server documentation site was changed. Now the ‘SQL Server 2019 Preview’ search option is just ‘SQL Server … Read more
I’ve decided to talk about using Azure Data Studio Insiders build after my last post where I discussed deploying SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters. In my last post I went through two methods I had used to deploy Big Data Clusters into Azure Kubernetes Service a lot of times. For those of you who … Read more
Challenging yourself at conferences is something I want to discuss in this post. Because over the weekend I did something I thought I would never do before. Last Saturday I presented at SQL Saturday Sofia in Bulgaria. During the conference I attended a Big Data Cluster session hosted by Rozalina Zaharieva and Dimitar Zaharlev. You … Read more