Feed: Databasejournal.com – Feature Database Articles. Author: . Throughout recent articles published on this forum, we have described a number of security-related features built-into Azure SQL Database, including, most notably, Transparent Data Encryption, Row-Level Security, and Azure SQL Database Auditing. Their availability reflects the consistent effort by Microsoft to provide functional parity between Azure SQL […]
Read MoreGetting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse – Part 4
Feed: Databasejournal.com – Feature Database Articles. Author: . Introduction Microsoft introduced Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a new enterprise-class, elastic petabyte-scale, data warehouse service that can scale according to organizational demands in just few minutes. In my last article of the series, I talked about the different types of tables we can create in SQL Data […]
Read MorePython in SQL Server
Feed: Blogs – Simple Talk. Author: Tony Davis. Anyone using R in SQL Server employs the procedure sp_execute_external_script, the first parameter of this being the language to use. The documentation rather obliquely says that “the script must be written in a supported and registered language“. Until recently, the only language was R, but now a […]
Read MoreUsing Azure for free
Feed: James Serra’s Blog . Author: James Serra. There are a number of options for using Azure for free. This is very useful for those of you who are not familiar with Azure and want to “play” with it: Create a free Azure account and get $200 in free credit: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ Eligible startups can join BizSpark […]
Read MorePrice reductions on General Purpose Virtual Machines
Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Brian Hillger. We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offerings at incredibly competitive prices to our customers. As part of this promise, we regularly lower our prices as Azure continues to grow at scale and remain committed to our price match promise. Last week, at the Microsoft //Build conference, […]
Read MoreNew smaller Windows Server IaaS Image
Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jing Xu. We continue to find ways to make Azure a better value for our customers. Azure Managed Disks, a new disk service launched in Feb ’17, simplifies the management and scaling of Virtual Machines (VM). You can choose to create an empty Managed Disk, or create a Managed Disk […]
Read MoreAnnouncing Public Preview of HDInsight HBase on Azure Data Lake Store
Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Stephen Wu. On November 21, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Store. Azure Data Lake Store is a hyperscale cloud storage for big data analytics built to the open Hadoop File System (HDFS) standard. Azure Data Lake Store provides enterprise grade security, including SSL and encryption at rest by […]
Read MoreThe Microsoft vision for accelerating enterprise blockchain development
Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: JT Rose. Next week, Microsoft is headed to Consensus 2017 in New York City to meet with blockchain developers and share new additions to our Microsoft Azure Blockchain portfolio. We’re thrilled to sponsor and participate in a forum that brings together businesses, partners, and communities who are passionate about taking […]
Read MoreAnnouncing support for additional Blockchain Protocols on Azure
Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Avanessians. Over the past year, we have worked closely with customers and partners to develop an open blockchain ecosystem on Microsoft Azure for blockchain application development. Our goal has been to empower you to build blockchain solutions easily, with the ledger and development tools of your choice. Initially, we […]
Read MoreAzure IoT Suite adds physical IoT device/gateway tutorials
Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sam George. There are many facets to an IoT Solution – device code, cloud solution code, and application code – all working together to realize a business goal. Azure IoT Suite is designed to get you started quickly and realize business value from IoT. You can get started with a […]
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