Azure CLI – Deleting Resources

Azure CLI is really handy for all sorts of tasks. When I build solutions, POCs and environments and I want to tear down the resources I like to use Azure CLI over the Portal. Below will show you the commands I use.

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Azure Redis Cache – Persistent Data

I mentioned before that you could use the idea of data persistency to rebuild your data from total failure. There are two types. RDB and AOF.

RDB – persists a snapshot of your cache in a binary format. The snapshot is saved in an Azure Storage account. AOF – saves every write operation to a log. The log is saved at least once per second into an Azure Storage account. 

This is quite an in-depth topic area and I suggest further reading to determine which one suits you: https://redis.io/topics/persistence#aof-disadvantages

To set this up you will see data persistence section within your Redis Cache

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SQL server BIGINT

It has been a while since I wrote a blog post for TSQL Tuesday and there is no better time then now following on from Brent Ozar’s Invite about our favourite data types in SQL server.

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