Amazon Aurora

Going Cloud Native

Lots of organizations are moving to the cloud, but having different levels of success. This change can be powerful and create tremendous opportunity, but it can also be a disappointment.

Azure Storage Copies

Azure Storage Redundancy Cost Savings

Azure Blob Store Redundancy

Cloud Database Growth

The use of cloud databases is growing, and Azure SQL Database is one of the more popular ones.

A Cloud Database for Statistics

A company decides to move to the cloud and outsource database administration.

PolyBase scale-out group in Azure for free

create a sql server polybase scale out group in azure for free

Maintenance Windows

Is it better to ask forgiveness than permission? Some people take that approach to maintenance windows, but that isn't permissible in the cloud.

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 […]