Initially, the main focus of this post was going to be quick and about using the latest version of SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) to check out execution plans for Azure SQL Data warehouse (DW). I got a little side tracked by a certain operation called – SHUFFLE, because, I like the name.
I have come to understand the importance of using columnstore indexes when my queries are aggregating and scanning across many millions of rows.
If I was a wizard I would make these 4 improvements to Azure SQL Database. They are in no particular order, in fact I could come up with about 10 features / improvements that I would like to see but I think 4 will be suffice. Some are more realistic than others, I am sure for some of them I am more likely to get a tiger as a pet.
After demo building and testing features out within Azure SQL Database I like to delete the databases to save costs. Very rarely the following happens when trying to delete a database within Azure.
I was looking forward to do some work with Azure SQL Data Warehouse (DWH) when I hit the new query button and had the following message pop up –
Cannot connect to database when it is paused. (.Net SqlClient Data Provider)
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