At SQL Server Live last November, I demonstrated enabling SQL Audit for Azure SQL Database. During the class discussion I explained you must use Powershell to modify SQL Audit for Azure SQL Database. So, that’s my post today, showing you how it is done. By default, SQL Audit for Azure SQL Database will enable the … Read more
Last October I wrote a review of the Gigaom SQL Transactional Processing Price-Performance test. That post references the original data warehouse test also published by Gigaom. I believe both Gigaom reports were funded by Microsoft. I found the first report on data warehousing to be of good quality. The SQL transaction report had some weak … Read more
Earlier this month Microsoft and GigaOM announced a new benchmark study comparing AWS RDS to Azure SQL Database. This study was authored by the same people that wrote the previous GigaOM data warehouse benchmark last year. I enjoyed the data warehouse study. I found it to be fair and thorough enough to help the reader … Read more
Building upon my earlier post, today I want to share with you the updated graphic and links for the analytics and big data services offered by Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. It is my hope that this post will be a starting guide for you when you need to research these analytic and big … Read more
Last year I wrote a post comparing the data services offered by both AWS and Microsoft Azure. Well, there’s been some changes since, so it was time to provide an updated graphic and links. Since both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services offer many data services, I thought it worth the time to create a … Read more
During his keynote at AWS re:Invent, Andy Jassy made some statements that seemed…questionable. Well, questionable to me, at least. Not surprising, the questionable statements focused on databases, data services, and storage. If you are interested in watching the keynote for yourself, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/ZOIkOnW640A The keynote is 2 hours and 44 minutes. … Read more
