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Steps To Create A New Container Group Using Azure CLI Before starting, a MSDN account is needed to use the Azure platform, please refer to your manager for further information. In this tutorial, the Azure CLI command-line tool will be install on Windows and we will deploy a website running the open source GHOST platform. Choose the right operating system to install the command-line tool. The information can be found here. When the installation is done, launch the command…
Oracle 19c, Oracle Cloud in numbers and pre-build environments on vagrant, docker and Oracle Linux Cloud Native environment, those were some of the topics at Open World Europe Conference in London. To see what’s behind with links to detailed sources, please read on.
Last blog of this year 2018 with SQL databases and Cloud Azure and this is not trivial choice. <Speculation mode> I would say year 2019 could be important for all stakeholders. Cloud transformation has begun in many forms at customer shops and we heard about some big actors who are coming in Switzerland including Azure or Google. Data Platforms services will not be an exception in some degree of magnitude … <end of speculation mode>….
Optimizing Multi-Billion Row Tables in Tabular in 2018 I wanted to attend the session moderated by Marco Russo to see his approach of optimizing performance in Tabular model The first thing to understand is how the data is stored and organized in a Tabular model. It is of course using the xVelocity in-memory capabilities with the Vertipac column storage layout engine. It organizes the data, compressing it by column, in combination with a dictionary…
The Microsoft data platform is evolving The third day began with the Keynote help by Rohan Kumar the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data by Microsoft The main message was “Hybrid data platform is the way for the future” and Microsoft is working in this direction. The use of AI and analytic to transform the customer business is also a key driver for the Microsoft data platform, which is building to enable this easily. Rohan…
Designing Modern Data and Analytic Solution in Azure After having explained the pros and cons of Azure and the decision drivers for going to an Azure Architecture, some interesting messages were delivered like the decoupling of the storage and compute aspect on Azure, even if some of services still combine both. Another message that we all know but is essential to remind on a regular basis is that cost control is an important aspect. Developers…
A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced the first public CTP version of next SQL Server version (CTP2). It is not a surprise, the SQL Server vNext becomes SQL Server 2019 and there are a plenty of enhancements as well as new features to discover. But for now, let’s start with likely one of my favorites: availability groups on Kurbernetes (aka K8s). As far I may see from customers and hear from my colleagues as well,…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote up about my first immersion into the SQL Server managed instances (SQLMIs), a new deployment model of Azure SQL Database which provides near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server on-premises Database Engine. In the previous blog post, to test a connection to this new service, I installed an Azure virtual machine on the same VNET (172.16.0.0/16) including SQL Server management studio. For testing purpose, we don’t need more,…
By Franck Pachot . The Oracle database has always distinguished two types of workloads: transactional (OLTP) and datawarehouse (VLDB, DWH, DSS, BI, analytics). There is the same idea in the managed Oracle Cloud with two autonomous database services. To show how this is old, here is how they were defined in the Oracle7 Tuning Book: The definition has not changed a lot. But the technology behind DSS/DWH has improved. Now, with In-Memory Column Store, Smart…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I’ve created a Google Cloud Spanner database and inserted a few rows from the GUI. This is definitely not a solution fo many rows and here is a post about using the command line.
