Cloud Computing Basics - Achieving High Availability
Learn about high availability in the cloud at a conceptual level.
2022-03-28
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Google Cloud Certification for Microsoft Database Engineer
Introduction I recently passed the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification exam, Professional Data Engineer Certification. It took me about five month to prepare for this, and I would like to share my thoughts of why I decided to take it on and how I prepared for it. At the moment, Google cloud (GCP) is […]
2021-03-15
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Static Hosting with Azure Blob Storage and Azure CDN
No matter what you need, Azure probably has a solution. In this article Diogo Souza demonstrates how to host a static web page in Azure in just a few steps with Azure Blob Storage and Azure CDN.
2020-11-03
Let’s move: Azure Resource Mover
Moving resources from one location to another in Azure has been possible but not easy to do. In this article, Dennes Torres introduces an exiting new Azure feature: Azure Resource Mover.
2020-10-26
Getting Started with SQL Server on Google Cloud Platform
Learn how you can create a SQL Server instance in the Google Cloud Platform.
2019-09-26
3,274 reads
Fixing Performance By Throwing Cloud At It
Your databases are hosted in the cloud – either in VMs or in a database-as-a-service – and you’re having a performance emergency that’s lasted for more than a day. Queries are slow, customers are getting frustrated, and you’re just not able to get a fix in quickly. Just ask management if they want to throw hardware at it.
2019-05-10
Designing Highly Scalable Database Architectures
While architecting cloud native applications, you need to ensure that your system is highly available, performant, scalable, fault tolerant, and has the capability to recover from a disaster scenario. In this article, Samir Behara discusses the options available when designing the database architecture to achieve scalability.
2019-05-03
Processing Data Using Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Analytics, and Microsoft’s Big Data Language U-SQL
Data analytics has become one of the powerful domains in the world of data science. An enormous amount of data is being generated by each organization in every sector. Computer science has found solutions to store and process this data in a smart way through a distributed file system. One such example is Azure Data Lake. It uses the Hadoop Distributed File System, and to perform analytics on this data, Azure Data Lake storage is integrated with Azure Data Analytics Service and HDInsight. In this article, Suhas Pande will explain how to store data using Azure Data Lake and how to perform data analysis on it using U-SQL, a big data SQL and C# language.
2019-04-29
Thinking About the Cloud?
Are you thinking about the cloud yet? Redgate is conducting some research into cloud adoption to better understand both the drivers and the blockers. Whether or not you’ve taken the plunge yet, they would love to hear from you. Participate in the survey and be entered into a draw to win an Amazon gift card worth $100.
2016-02-09
5,583 reads
A Skills Roadmap for DBAs in the Cloud Era
Cloud computing is on the move. Slowly but surely, businesses are transitioning more and more key pieces of infrastructure to the cloud in order to take advantage of cost, flexibility and agility benefits. And databases, the heart and soul of all applications, are the most critical component of this transition. Gerardo Dada explores the topic.
2015-11-02
3,769 reads
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