Tag: use case

With the introduction of Always Encrypted, Microsoft’s SQL platform (SQL Server 2016 and SQL Azure DB) protects sensitive data in use (during transactions and computations) without requiring any significant re-work in your applications. In a typical scenario, a client application is set up with Always Encrypted enabled in the database connection string. This instructs the SQL client driver to transparently decrypt the data retrieved from encrypted columns and to transparently encrypt the data before inserting it into the encrypted columns. However, in addition to this general use case, there are scenarios, in which applications need to copy or move the ... Read More

Last update: August 14, 2016 04:50 AM August 14, 2016 Glyph Lefkowitz What’s In A Name Amber’s excellent lightning talk on identity yesterday made me feel many feels, and reminded me of this excellent post by Patrick McKenzie about false assumptions regarding names. While that list is helpful, it’s very light on positively-framed advice, i.e. “you should” rather than “you shouldn’t”. So I feel like I want to give a little bit of specific, prescriptive advice to programmers who might need to deal with names. First and foremost: stop asking for unnecessary information. If I’m just authenticating to your system ... Read More

Key takeaways Learn about the current state of NoSQL databases in terms of industry adoption Read about tools that will help improve the developer productivity when working on NoSQL based applications Understand multi-model database concept and the pros and cons of multi-model database option versus polyglot persistence approach How to use NoSQL databases and big data technologies (like Hadoop and Spark) together to solve big data problems Learn how to integrate NoSQL databases with other emerging trends like microservices and container technologies like Docker. NoSQL databases have been around for several years now and have become the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Author: . Ryan Nienhuis is a Senior Product Manager for Amazon Kinesis This is the first of two AWS Big Data blog posts on Writing SQL on Streaming Data with Amazon Kinesis Analytics. In this post, I provide an overview of streaming data and key concepts like the basics of streaming SQL, and complete a walkthrough using a simple example. In the next post, I will cover more advanced stream processing concepts using Amazon Kinesis Analytics. Most organizations use batch data processing to perform their analytics in daily or hourly intervals to inform ... Read More

This month we're kicking off the Visual Studio Team Services monthly digest on the Azure blog. Visual Studio Team Services offers the best DevOps tooling to create an efficient continuous integration and release pipeline to Azure. With the rapidly expanding list of features in Team Services, teams can start to leverage it more efficiently for all areas of their Azure workflow, for apps written in any language and deployed to any OS. This post series will provide the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services and will be a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with ... Read More

Reviewed by Panagiotis Antonopoulos, Jakub Szymaszek, Raghav Kaushik Always Encrypted is one of the compelling features in SQL Server 2016 and in Azure SQL DB which provides a unique guarantee that data in the database cannot be viewed, accidentally or intentionally by users who do not have the ‘master key’ required to decrypt that data. If you want to know more about this feature, please review the product documentation at the previous link or watch the Channel 9 video on this topic. Customer Scenario In a recent case, we were working with a customer who was trying to use Table ... Read More

Clockwork mechanism for an ancient clock at the British Museum. (source: William Warby on Flickr). For more on time-series data, check out "Time Series Databases: New Ways to Store and Access Data," by Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman. Many businesses are turning to data analytics to provide insight for making operational decisions. Two areas in particular where data analytics can help companies is (1) improved service delivery to customers, and (2) more efficient and effective resource allocation. To arrive at actionable insights, the analysis often relies on multiple data sets of varying size and content. In this article, we will ... Read More

Many organizations have in place strategic enterprise monitoring and alerting frameworks such as IBM Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring, Novell Operations Center(TM) or BMC Patrol(TM). These frameworks provide centralized monitoring and operational support of systems throughout the enterprise. When delivering new systems into production, it is typically required that these systems must integrate with the enterprise monitoring capability. IBM Open Platform for Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark provides rich monitoring capabilities for services and components via Ambari Alerting. Also, IBM Data Server Manager (DSM) which is part of the BigInsights value add module, provides additional monitoring and alerting capability for IBM Big ... Read More

Key takeaways Learn about the current state of NoSQL databases in terms of industry adoption Read about tools that will help improve the developer productivity when working on NoSQL based applications Understand multi-model database concept and the pros and cons of multi-model database option versus polyglot persistence approach How to use NoSQL databases and big data technologies (like Hadoop and Spark) together to solve big data problems Learn how to integrate NoSQL databases with other emerging trends like microservices and container technologies like Docker. NoSQL databases have been around for several years now and have become the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Author: . Route 53 Health Checks provide the ability to verify that endpoints are reachable and that HTTP and HTTPS endpoints successfully respond. However, there are many situations where DNS failover would be useful, but TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS health checks alone can't sufficiently determine the health of the endpoint. In these cases, it's possible for an application to determine its own health, and then use an HTTP endpoint as a health proxy to Route 53 Health Checks to perform DNS failover. Today we'll look at an example using Route 53 Health Checks to provide DNS ... Read More