Tag: SQL On The Edge

With the current focus on data science, data engineering and the game-changing advantages of doing data lakes or warehouses in the cloud, all the major cloud providers continue to strengthen their data-related services and tools. On this front, Microsoft has…

As Microsoft’s premier NoSQL cloud offering, Cosmos DB offers some interesting design decisions and trade-offs that are necessary to understand in order to maximize the benefits of the product. In this blog post, we are going to cover indexing as…

As Microsoft Azure’s NoSQL service offering, Cosmos DB has received a lot of investment and development effort. Microsoft considers Cosmos as a “ring zero” service, which means that it is available by default from all regions as soon as they…

As part of their cloud offerings, all major providers (Microsoft, Amazon, Google) have developed very exciting and interesting NoSQL/NewSQL offerings. Microsoft Azure’s is called Cosmos DB, a rebranding of the product initially known as DocumentDB. Cosmos DB is no longer…

Warner Chaves, Microsoft MVP and MCM, explores the Columnstore indexes feature and explains why it’s important, and where you can leverage this functionality.

Warner Chaves, Microsoft MVP and MCM, sheds some light on Azure SQL Database Threat Detection.

One of the cool things about SQL Server is that it comes bundled with all the Business Intelligence services with the core database engine license. Reporting Services (which includes the Mobile Report Publisher), Analysis Services, and Integration Services are all…

Warner Chaves, Microsoft MVP and MCM, explains how organizations can learn to manage the rapid evolution of data, using the power of Data Integration.

Warner Chaves, Pythian database expert and Microsoft MVP, discusses why AlwaysEncrypted, a new security feature offered in the SQL Product family can protect your business.

  Have you ever used Microsoft’s PowerBi service? If you have, have you used it within the last year? The reason I ask is that the current PowerBi service is so radically different from the initial release that pretty much only…