Author: Sandeep Arora

Migration to a new data platform can be a complex and time-consuming process. A well-defined plan and a checklist are essential in ensuring your migration is successful. In this blog, I’ll outline Pythian’s Snowflake Migration Checklist—a process we’ve refined from…

A few weeks ago I was performing an in-place upgrade from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2017. I followed each and every pre-check before performing an in-place upgrade, but got an  error message at the end of the installation….

A data lake is a centralized repository for large amounts of structured and unstructured data to enable direct analytics.The above image illustrates multiple functions of a data lake, such as data ingestion, data indexing, data processing, data analytics, machine learning,…

This post will focus on the implementation of a continuous migration from SQL Server to Cloud Spanner using Striim. It includes steps for configuring an initial load and a continuous data replication using change data capture. However, I don’t cover …

    This post shows how to use cloudspannerecosystem/scheduled-backups to configure scheduled backups for your cloud spanner database. The setup of the required resources (Cloud Scheduler, pub/sub and cloud function) will be done by using terraform in this tutorial.  …

If you’ve used Azure Data Factory (ADF), you’ve probably sent email alerts. But these don’t provide any clarity or customization in the message subject line or body. How do you send an email from the ADF pipeline with a custom…

This tutorial shows you how to configure SQL Server AlwaysOn availability groups (AG) using DH2i DxEnterprise and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). This offering helps you achieve high availability for your SQL Server databases running on containers in Kubernetes. GCP Resources…

Architecture diagram Register the application with the name terraform. Leave all options as default. Add a secret that will be used as a password to authenticate terraform. Provide a description and expiry period for the secret. Copy the Secret ID…

Architecture diagram Azure Data Factory Analytics solution For monitoring and analyzing data factory pipelines, I recommend installing the Azure Data Factory Analytics solution from Azure Marketplace. This solution provides you a summary of the overall health of your Data Factory,…

Have you tried to run a SQL Server deployment on Google Kubernetes Engine yet? Here is a complete guide to create and run SQL Server 2019 on GKE. We will be creating the following resources to successfully host SQL Server…