Lesson Learned #157: Connecting to Azure Managed Instance Using Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC

Today, we received a new service request that our customer wants to connect from Oracle to Azure SQL Managed Instance or Azure SQL Database using Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC using a Windows Operating system.
 
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Using Zero Trust principles to protect against sophisticated attacks like Solorigate

The Solorigate supply chain attack has captured the focus of the world over the last month. This attack was simultaneously sophisticated and ordinary. The actor demonstrated sophistication in the breadth of tactics used to penetrate, expand across, and… Continue reading Using Zero Trust principles to protect against sophisticated attacks like Solorigate

How IT leaders are securing identities with Zero Trust

The past twelve months have been a remarkable time of digital transformation as organizations, and especially digital security teams, adapt to working remotely and shifting business operations. IT leaders everywhere turned to Zero Trust approaches to a… Continue reading How IT leaders are securing identities with Zero Trust

Three mysteries in deep learning: Ensemble, knowledge distillation, and self-distillation

Under now-standard techniques, such as over-parameterization, batch-normalization, and adding residual links, “modern age” neural network training—at least for image classification tasks and many others—is usually quite stable. Using standard neural network architectures and training algorithms (typically SGD with momentum), the learned models perform consistently well, not only in terms of training accuracy but even in […]

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ADX Insights – Azure Monitor for Azure Data Explorer (preview)

We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Data Explorer Insights!ADX Insights (Azure Monitor for Azure Data Explorer) provides comprehensive monitoring of your clusters by delivering a unified view of your cluster performance, operations, … Continue reading ADX Insights – Azure Monitor for Azure Data Explorer (preview)