(SEO is going to have a field day with this title.) Anyways, in my holiday SQL documentation reading I came across an argument you can add when creating a view in Azure SQL Database,...
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Connecting the Dots of Azure SQL CICD Part 3: Testing with tSQLt
Back to posts here soon. Part 3 is here: Connecting the Dots of Azure SQL CICD Part 3: Testing with tSQLt...
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Connecting the Dots of Azure SQL CICD Part 2: Local Development
Posted here: Connecting the Dots of Azure SQL CICD Part 2: Local Development...
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Connecting the Dots of Azure SQL CICD
Part 1: Getting Started I’ve written a lot about database change management/CICD in the past (here and here and here and here), but these articles somewhat fell short in one area or another. Integrated...
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Change Tracking in Azure SQL
Azure SQL, or more specifically SQL Server, has two main ways to tracking changes with data (rows/DML) as well as table changes. One of those methods is Change Tracking with the other being Change...
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Accelerate Your Azure SQL Skills
When I started at Microsoft just a short time ago, I needed to ramp up my learning of Azure SQL as well as the other products and services in Azure as quickly as possible....
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Getting started with JSON in Azure SQL Database
Did you know that starting in SQL Server 2016, JSON was able in the database? That you were able to store and query JSON data just like a NoSQL database? So let’s talk about...
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From Sega’s Dreamcast to Microsoft’s Azure SQL
On September 9th, 1999, Sega launched the Dreamcast in the states. Being a die hard Sega fan, I of course pre-ordered it to start my marketed to 128-bit journey. A few years later in...
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Loading data into Azure SQL (with Azure Data Studio and Azure Blob Storage)
When you want to start working with a database (no matter what type, flavor, version ), you need some data. As I started my journey with Azure SQL, this was one of the first...
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Hello, again.
I figured with the many changes in my job status over the past few months, it was time to resurrect this blog. Being a PM now here at Microsoft in the Azure SQL database...
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