Azure SQL Data Warehouse improves the data querying performance

 

Azure SQL Data Warehouse showed to be a fast and flexible analytics platform. Enhancements in the distributed query execution layer as per the recent experience result in the significant query performance improvements for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW).

I/O bandwidth to storage and repartitioning speed (shuffle speed) determine the analytics workload performance. In this article, we are […]

By |November 28th, 2018|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Migrate To Managed Disks In The Azure Portal

 

Azure has recently introduced the Managed Disks migration functionality that allows users to migrate from unmanaged Disks to Managed Disks in the Azure Portal in a single click.

Here is an overview of the benefits for those using Managed Disks:

High availability across the compute and storage resources
Integration of the disks, images, snapshots as the […]

By |November 27th, 2018|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure IaaS Apps Disaster Recovery

 

Recently Azure offered native Disaster Recovery for applications running on IaaS being the first public cloud to offer such a service. This service makes applications region-level resilient to failures via replicating VMs into other regions. Azure Availability Zones and Availability Sets add to Azure Site Recovery to complete resiliency for applications running on Azure VMs.

 

Advantages […]

Profiling Slow MySQL Queries In Azure With EXPLAIN

 

Azure Database for MySQL is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) solution that Microsoft offers on Azure. Using Azure managed services for MySQL enables one to easily build an intelligent and secure application.

It often happens that a simple query can become a bottleneck impacting the entire database performance. MySQL integrates a very useful tool – the EXPLAIN […]

By |August 20th, 2018|Azure How To, IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Secrets on GitHub Repositories

 

Developers worldwide host their projects on GitHub with the majority using GitHub public repositories for their open source work. While being a great way to contribute to the community, it does come with things to keep in mind. Particularly around managing credentials and other things.

Azure secrets include authentication credentials that should not be made publicly available […]

By |August 20th, 2018|IT Management, Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Protection Of Machines With Managed Disks Using Azure Site Recovery

Microsoft has recently announced the ability of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to set up Disaster Recovery (DR) for IaaS VMs using managed disks. This feature allows ASR to become an all-encompassing disaster recovery solution for applications hosted on IaaS VMs, including those hosted on VMs with managed disks.

Managed disks allow for storage management simplification as well as […]

By |August 16th, 2018|Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Windows Azure – Secure Your Connection String

 

In this blog post, we are going to cover how to import the private key to Windows Azure.

In this technique, there is a role of the Windows Azure administrator who is the private key holder. His main task is to:

Make the private/public key pair and select a password to secure the private key
Backup […]

By |August 15th, 2018|Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

General Availability of Azure Event Grid

Modern applications put the flexibility of the cloud to a good use by getting themselves distant from the monolithic architectures by means of a set of distinct services, all working together. This includes two kinds of services i.e. foundational services offered by a cloud platform such as Azure and application-specific services.

Event-driven execution has secured its […]

By |August 15th, 2018|Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

Azure Data Lake Storage in Storage Explorer

The public preview of the Azure Data Lake Storage has been announced. It provides a rich GUI for the Azure Data Lake Storage and has also been the top customer’s priority for a really long time as well. Now the official public preview supports Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) in the Azure Storage Explorer (ASE). Upon […]

By |August 14th, 2018|Microsoft Azure|0 Comments

How to develop Go Apps for Azure with the Go SDK

The latest Azure SDK for Go will help the Azure developers to develop applications for Azure with Go. The SDK features connecting the data sources like Cosmos DB and Azure Storage, deploying Azure resources programmatically, authenticating users, and much more. 

Why use Go? In today’s digitally transformed world, developer and software efficiency have a major impact on […]

By |August 14th, 2018|Microsoft Azure|0 Comments