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Supported Networking Scenarios for Azure Lab Services
Azure Lab Services with Advanced Networking was announced as generally available in August 2022. Customers are using the advanced networking feature on various network architectures and topolo… Continue reading Network architectures and topologies with Lab Plans
Welcome to the March 2023 update. This month, we are excited to announce several new features across web, Windows, and Mac. For web users, speed up large workbooks with Check Performance, insert and edit formulas with Formula Argument Assistance, … Continue reading What’s New in Excel (March 2023)
While Azure SQL Database is different than SQL Server in some ways, when it comes to gathering query metrics, a lot of the tools are the same. In this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition with Rie Merrit and Grant Fritchey, they will give you a quick r… Continue reading Capturing Query Metrics in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
Today, we got a new question how much is the size used by a columnstore index table at storage level and memory usage.
TSQL to obtain the total number of rows, size per schema, table and index.
Using the view sys.column_store_row_groups (Tr… Continue reading Lesson Learned #340: Storage and Memory allocated by Columnstore Indexes
Have you ever wanted to learn more about programming databases for Transact SQL (T-SQL) but didn’t know where to start? Here at Microsoft, we have officially launched a video series where you will be able to learn the basics of Programming Databa… Continue reading Microsoft Learn: Programming Databases with Transact-SQL for Beginners
The new Microsoft Teams desktop app for Windows was announced yesterday at Enterprise Connect and many users are excited to start using it. As an admin, if your organization is in production, you will have the option to enable the new Teams experience … Continue reading Enable the new Microsoft Teams toggle for your organization
Dark theme extended to one customer voice (OCV) wizard
The Configuration Manager console now extends the dark theme for the one customer voice (OCV) wizards. All ‘Send a smile’ and ‘Send a frown’ wizards will adhere to dark theme starti… Continue reading Configuration Manager technical preview version 2303
Training large AI models on Azure using CycleCloud + Slurm
In the past year generative AI models have leapt into common discourse through the popularity of text-to-image models and services such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, but especially thr… Continue reading Training large AI models on Azure using CycleCloud + Slurm