Month: August 2021

Intro
Following the upgrade of the Legacy Queries discovery experiences announced in this blog post, we are happy to announce that the Legacy Query save and edit experiences have also been upgraded with a new, modern, improved experience. 
 
… Continue reading Log Analytics Legacy Queries save/edit experience upgrade→

Azure Cognitive Services: the AI service that keeps on giving. Although a popular choice for quick development and proof-of-concepts, don’t let that override all the reasons Azure Cognitive Services are built for innovative production workloads. In thi… Continue reading 5 Ways Azure Cognitive Services Scale→

 
Call Summary:
This month’s community call features presentations – Dialog API security updates (recent changes to dialog API that address a security vulnerability requires action from you IF your add-in uses cross-domain communication between t… Continue reading Office Add-ins community call – August 2021→

General Performance Issues:
 
If a service is not under consistent traffic, query latency will appear to be much slower than desired.  This is because the service is cold, and caches must be loaded to serve up their response.  The servic… Continue reading Troubleshoot Azure Cognitive Search Latency Issue→

Generally speaking, an off-line hackathon event takes place with people getting together at the same time and place for about two to three nights, intensively. On the other hand, all events have turned into online-only nowadays, and there’s no exceptio… Continue reading Hackathon as a Service with GitHub Actions, Microsoft 365 and Power Platform→

Call Summary:
Topics covered in this month’s community call include demos in Performance Insights (a new Power Apps self-service tool that analyzes runtime user data, makes efficiency recommendations), Event Calendar Power App (See event date… Continue reading Power Apps Community Call – August 2021→

On SQL Server, there is a database setting called parameterization.
parameterization has two values, Simple (the default) or Forced.
 
I will share here some details and examples to simplify the concept of parameterization, and  try to d… Continue reading Database Parameterization→

 
Azure Cognitive search has included a new feature called semantic search. Customers have put  this feature to action, so early in May, 2021, Ogilvy a subsidiary of WPP incorporated semantic  search in  their  Enterprise Knowl… Continue reading Semantic Search in Action→