About two weeks ago I had the immense pleasure of speaking in Berlin for the first time. Now, I'm used to regular events like data saturday's and SQL Bits or dataMinds Connect as outliers because they're larger and different events. But speaking at this one is on a whole different level. As you might gather … Continue reading Speaking experiences at Data Moshpit (Berlin, Germany)
It's been some time since my last post on Azure Data Factory, but I had some fun this week and wanted to share the learnings. This blog will cover how I read files from an sFTP site, use the copy activity if the file hasn't been processed yet and write some data into a table … Continue reading Learning ADF Part 6
In one of my last blogs, I wrote about my first encounter with the Azure Hyperscale Serverless offering. Now it's time to dig a bit deeper and what it's up to. Disclaimer. Azure Hyperscale Serverless is in preview and one of the things that isn't active yet, is the auto shutdown. This means that it … Continue reading Fooling around with TPC-H data, ADF and Hyperscale Serverless
As some of you know, I've written a series of blog posts on Azure SQL Databases and there's an accompanying session that I had the honour of presenting a number of times. Now Azure keeps developing new offers and one of these went in public preview February 15th. An offer I hadn't seen coming. You … Continue reading Azure Hyperscale Serverless, first impressions
In the past 9 blogs, I’ve shown you all sorts of Azure SQL database solutions and gave them a little run for their money. I’ve tested a lot and written about them. This blog will be about the summation of the data and my views on the combined graphs. At the end I’ll wrap it … Continue reading Azure SQL Databases part 10 of 9, round up
Welcome to my blog series on Azure SQL DB performance. In this blog I'll write about my findings with the Azure SQL DB Managed Instance tier. Click here for information about the set-upClick here for the scripts I’ve used Intro So far, the blogs were about the really SaaS databases; the database is deployed and … Continue reading Azure SQL Database Performance comparison part 9 of 9: Managed Instance
Welcome to my blog series on Azure SQL DB performance. In this blog I'll write about my findings with the Azure SQL DB Business Critical tier. Click here for information about the set-upClick here for the scripts I’ve used Intro My last blog was about the Hyperscale tier, this week we’re back at more regular … Continue reading Azure SQL Database Performance comparison part 8 of 9: Business Critical
Welcome to my blog series on Azure SQL DB performance. In this blog I'll write about my findings with the Azure SQL DB Hyperscale tier. Click here for information about the set-upClick here for the scripts I’ve used Intro So far, my blogs have been on the different Azure SQL DB offerings where there are … Continue reading Azure SQL Database Performance comparison part 7 of 9: Hyperscale
Welcome to my blog series on Azure SQL DB performance. In this blog I'll write about my findings with the Azure SQL DB General Purpose Provisioned tier. Quite a mouth full. Click here for information about the set-upClick here for the scripts I’ve used Intro In my previous blog, I wrote about the serverless tier, … Continue reading Azure SQL Database Performance comparison part 5 of 9: General Purpose
I'm a huge fan of the Ola Hallengren maintenance scripts. They have incredible power and, when you've read the documentation, are easy to use. But one thing he can't prepare the scripts for, is different settings for each database on the instance. Allow me to show you how I've fixed that. Setup Suppose I've got … Continue reading Dynamic SQL Maintenance Scripts
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