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Whether you are a citizen developer creating a mission critical application for your department, or a ISV building and selling direct to consumer applications, or somewhere in-between, providing a rich interactive reporting experience can make … Continue reading Bring rich reporting into your applications with Power BI
This blog post will address the enterprise IT admin’s challenge on how to deploy Office 365 ProPlus to remote workers without saturating the company’s VPN connections. It will show you how to implement a tactical approach which allows an IT admin to st… Continue reading Deploy Office 365 ProPlus to remote workers
With all the changes in Azure, it is sometimes hard to keep track, that’s why I thought I would give you a quick update on two exciting things I learned this week. In this update, I want to share a couple of things like new capabilities and benefits fo… Continue reading Az Update: Azure Dedicated Host News, Azure Stack Edge with GPU and govern your hybrid servers
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I was recently helping a customer with an issue where he was using PolyBase external objects in an AlwaysOn Availability Database. After setting up a readable secondary replica, when trying to query an external table on the readable secondary, … Continue reading PolyBase External Objects in an AlwaysOn Availability Database
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Consider the following scenario. You have a table in an Oracle which uses the Oracle date datatype:
create table OracleUser.table1 (c1 date);
You insert a row:
insert into OracleUser.table1 values(to_date(‘2019/12/23 18:59:… Continue reading SQL 2019 PolyBase: Fractional Truncation Issue When Using Data Virtualization in Azure Data Studio
Increased remote work has many organizations rethinking network and security strategies. In this post we share guidance on how to manage security in this changing environment.
The post Alternative ways for security professionals and IT to achieve moder… Continue reading Alternative ways for security professionals and IT to achieve modern security controls in today’s unique remote work scenarios
In this blog, I want to discuss a use case that is not very well documented, “… how do I use the Log Analytics API to connect to my Sentinel’s Workspace and query the data?” This is a common ask and once you know the steps, its quite simple. Here in… Continue reading Access Azure Sentinel Log Analytics via API (Part 1)
Many schools are adopting online learning, but shifting education online can come with challenges, especially as assignments and quizzes are re-imagined for remote distribution. During this time, educators are seeking online tools to help make their cl… Continue reading Sample forms to help educators and students shift to online learning