In today’s post I’ll talk about replicating data in Azure Database for MySQL. Data in replication allows you to synchronize data from MySQL Server running on prem, virtual machines or database services hosted by other cloud providers into the Azure…
We’re all looking for ways to save money within our Azure subscriptions and resources. How does a savings of up to 72% sound? Today I’d like to give you an Overview of Azure Reserve Virtual Machine Instances, a payment option…
Today I’ll give an overview of Microsoft’s newly released (in preview) Elastic Database Jobs service. This is considered as a fully hosted Azure service, whereas the previous iteration was a custom hosted and managed version available on SQL DB and…
In this post I’d like to give an overview of what Azure Operations Management Suite is and what it can be used for. First, Operations Management Suite, or OMS, is a collection of management services designed for Azure cloud. As…
In a previous post, I talked about Azure Databricks and what it is. In review, Azure Databricks is a managed platform for running Apache Spark jobs. As it’s managed, that means you don’t have to worry about managing the cluster…
Today I’m excited to talk about the general availability of Azure Data Factory V2, as well as some new features that have been added over the last couple months. If you don’t know, Azure Data Factory Version 2 added some…
Keeping businesses online and operational is a key concern, no matter the nature of your downtime. Most companies don’t focus on business continuity until it’s too late or have incomplete, untested barebones recovery plans. High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Backup…
When we talk about blob storage, we talk about the three different tiers – hot, cool or archive – for delegating the importance of data and how accessible it is. The challenge has been that when we picked the tier…
Today I’ll wrap up my series on HDInsight with R Server. What R Server does is when you create an HDInsight cluster, you can select it as an option and it will provide data scientists, statisticians and R Programmers with…
Last week I began a series on HDInsight. Today I’m continuing that series with a focus on Interactive Query. Interactive Query leverages Hive which uses LLAP (Long Live and Process), also known as low latency analytical processing. This allows for…