Lesson Learned #307:Reference to database and/or server name is not supported in this version

Our customer got the following error message: Msg 40515, Level 15, State 1, Line 19 – Reference to database and/or server name in ‘DbName.dbo.TableName’ is not supported in this version of SQL Server, executing the following TSQL: select * in… Continue reading Lesson Learned #307:Reference to database and/or server name is not supported in this version

Lesson Learned #306: TCP Provider, error: 2 – Connection was terminated

In some situations, we found that our application reported the following error message: A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 2 – Connection was terminated )
 
Working wit… Continue reading Lesson Learned #306: TCP Provider, error: 2 – Connection was terminated

Lesson Learned #305: Client Connection marked as broken because of SQLSTATE(08S01)

Today, we worked on a service request that our customer is using Hikaki pooler and time to time they got the following error message: HikariPool-1 – Connection ConnectionID:18 ClientConnectionId: xxxx-xxxx-xxx marked as broken because of SQLSTATE(… Continue reading Lesson Learned #305: Client Connection marked as broken because of SQLSTATE(08S01)

Tackling AI Inference workloads on Azure’s NC A100 v4 virtual machines with time to spare

by Hugo Affaticati (Technical Program Manager), Tonny Wong (Principal Product Manager), Jon Shelley (Principal TPM Manager), and John Lee (Principal Product Manager).
 
Introduction
 
The NC A100 v4-series virtual machines (VMs) on Azure offe… Continue reading Tackling AI Inference workloads on Azure’s NC A100 v4 virtual machines with time to spare

A quick start guide to benchmarking AI models in Azure: MLPerf Inference v2.1 on Multi-Instance GPU

By Hugo Affaticati – Technical Program Manager
 
Useful resources:
Information on the NC A100 v4-series: Microsoft
              Information on MIG: NVIDIA
 
In this document, o… Continue reading A quick start guide to benchmarking AI models in Azure: MLPerf Inference v2.1 on Multi-Instance GPU

Armchair Architects: Is Big Data Turning into Dark Data?

Welcome back to another episode of Armchair Architects as part of the Azure Enablement show. Today we’re going to talk about data, but not just any data. We’re going to talk about this phenomenon called dark data and what do you do about it. I hadn’t h… Continue reading Armchair Architects: Is Big Data Turning into Dark Data?