Looking back at the last decade

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

Using Azure Data Studio Insiders build

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

Azure DevOps Test Environment options

Recently I’ve been going through different Azure DevOps test environment options. In order for people to perform changes without interfering with the existing business environment. In addition, I’ve had to help some people sort out test environments for Azure DevOps as well. So, I thought I better do a post about the options that I … Read more

Building a test lab to use outside work

Introduction I’ve decided to post about building a test lab to use outside of work. Because it’s something most data platform professionals deal with at one stage or another. Some of you can also consider this a primer for future posts. Now if you’re lucky your workplace already has a test environment where you can … Read more