Lock your Azure SQL Database

So you have many databases in Azure, you accidentally deleted one which can happen and has happened to me because in my situation they had very similar naming conventions with a number different at the end of the database name.

Question is, how can you protect yourself from this? Answer. Locks.

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Azure Databricks to Azure SQL DB

Recently I got to a stage where I leveraged Databricks to the best of my ability to join couple of CSV files together, play around some aggregations and then output it back to a different mount point ( based on Azure Storage) as a parquet file, I decided that I actually wanted to move this data into Azure SQL DB, which you may want to do one day.

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SQL Server 2019 Linux On Azure

It was just a matter of time until I started combining my cloud experience with “different” flavours of SQL Server. I haven’t used Linux since my university days (Oracle – errgh) but recently some Friends of mine ( using LAMP stack ) asked me couple of questions about SQL Server Linux.

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SQL Server 2019 Overview

There are many quality resources regarding SQL Server 2019, from eBooks to videos about the newest features and how one would implement these within your business. I recommend the following book, not because I was co-author, more so of the fact that the other authors have brilliant chapters giving quality high level information (with enough detail) to understand SQL Server 2019.

I mean, who better than Buck Woody to talk about Big Data Clusters???!

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Tracking Costs in Microsoft Azure via Tags

Moving to public cloud such as Azure, AWS or even private cloud services you need to be tracking costs and seeing if you are “effective”. What is the best way of doing this with Microsoft Azure?

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