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For certain scenario, the application / website hosted in Azure Cloud Services needs more secure without anonymous access, this blog will introduce below four ways to specify IP address (or a range of IP addresses) could be blocked / allowed from acces… Continue reading Block/allow specific IP addresses on Azure Cloud Services
We have released an update to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, version 3.0.1. The update addresses several issues that are important to our customers.
Updates in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.0.1 include:
Fixed
Fixed async thread blocking issues o… Continue reading Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.0.1
Hamida Rebai Trabelsi is a passionate learner who juggles multiple roles with ease: a senior technology professional at one of Canada’s government agencies, a Microsoft MVP, a mother. Hamida’s journey to Software and Cloud Architect at Revenu i… Continue reading From Tunisian classroom full of boys to architect for Canadian government: A journey of perseverance
(part 5 of my series of articles on security principles in Microsoft SQL Servers & Databases)
Security concept: Audit Trail
Precisely speaking, an Audit Trail per se is not a principle, but rather a concept. Still, I think everyone halfway s… Continue reading Security concept: Audit Trail
Introduction
Microsoft Azure enables you to deploy a variety of infrastructure, web application and automation resources. These resources are generally a part of a larger infrastructure or an application service that your org… Continue reading Introducing the Network Security Dashboard for Azure Security Center
Security is a top priority for Microsoft and our customers, and we continue to work very hard to keep customer data secure from cyber-threats, while ensuring compliance with evolving regulations. As part of our continued work to help you protect your E… Continue reading New security feature in September 2021 Cumulative Update for Exchange Server
The Azure Synapse Analytics team is continually focused on delivering a highly performant and scalable platform for Apache Spark workloads, in particular in support of our customers’ most common workload patterns. By combining the latest open-source up… Continue reading Speed up your data workloads with performance updates to Apache Spark 3.1.2 in Azure Synapse
This post was authored by Stacia Varga, business intelligence practitioner, author, mentor, and classroom instructor.
As organizations adopt cloud data lakehouses to deliver the best of breed capabilities of data warehouses and data lakes, … Continue reading Creating a Databricks SQL Dashboard to Analyze NYC Taxi Data