Azure.Source – Volume 56
Now in preview Local testing with live data means faster development with Azure Stream Analytics Live data local testing is now available for public preview in Azure Stream Analytics Visual Studio...
View ArticleBest practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for MySQL monitoring
Whether you are a developer, database administrator, site reliability engineer, or a DevOps professional, monitoring databases is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and...
View ArticleBest practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for PostgreSQL...
Whether you are a developer, database administrator, site reliability engineer, or a DevOps professional, monitoring databases is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and...
View ArticleAzure SQL Database and Azure Database for MySQL at PASS SUMMIT!
This blog post was authored by Debbi Lyons, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing. Get inspired by our industry-leading keynote speakers on the Microsoft data platform at PASS Summit 2018!...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Standard 2.1
Since we shipped .NET Standard 2.0 about a year ago, we’ve shipped two updates to .NET Core 2.1 and are about to release .NET Core 2.2. It’s time to update the standard to include some of the new...
View ArticleSecurity fixes for Team Foundation Server
Today, we are releasing a fix for a potential cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This impacts Team Foundation Server 2017 and 2018. We have released patches for TFS 2017 Update 3.1, TFS 2018...
View ArticleExploring Clang Tooling Part 3: Rewriting Code with clang-tidy
In the previous post in this series, we used clang-query to examine the Abstract Syntax Tree of a simple source code file. Using clang-query, we can prototype an AST Matcher which we can use in a...
View ArticleRun your LOB applications with PostgreSQL powered by the plv8 extension
We are extremely excited to share that the plv8 extension for PostgreSQL is now enabled in all generally available regions of Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The plv8 extension was one of the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure portal November 2018 update
This post was co-authored by Leon Welicki, Principal Group PM Manager, Microsoft Azure. In October 2018, we started a monthly blog series to help you find everything that is new in the Microsoft Azure...
View ArticleWorking with US Census Data in R
If you need data about the American populace, there's no source more canonical than the US Census Bureau. The bureau publishes a wide range of public sets, and not just from the main Census conducted...
View ArticleAzure SQL Data Warehouse provides frictionless development using SQL Server...
The highly requested feature for SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) is now in preview with the support for SQL Server Data Tool (SSDT) in Visual Studio! Teams of developers can now collaborate over a single,...
View ArticleAutomatically discover workload insights for advanced performance tuning...
Advanced tuning for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) just got simpler with additional data warehouse recommendations and metrics. SQL DW is a flexible, secure, and fully managed analytics platform for...
View ArticleRow-Level Security is now supported for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Row-Level Security (RLS) for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, an additional capability for managing security for sensitive data. Azure SQL Data...
View ArticleWorkload insights into SQL Data Warehouse delivered through Microsoft Azure...
SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) now enables enhanced insights into analytical workloads by integrating directly with Microsoft Azure Monitor diagnostic logs. This new capability enables developers to...
View ArticleAzure SQL Data Warehouse introduces new productivity and security capabilities
SQL Data Warehouse continues to provide a best in class price to performance offering, leading others in TPC-H and TPC-DS benchmarks based on independent testing. As a result we are seeing customers,...
View ArticleAnnouncing the general availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka®
In today’s business environment, with the rapidly increasing volume of data and the growing pressure to respond to events in real-time, organizations need data-driven strategies to gain valuable...
View ArticleAutomating SAP deployments in Microsoft Azure using Terraform and Ansible
Deploying complex SAP landscapes into a public cloud is not an easy task. While SAP basis teams tend to be very familiar with the traditional tasks of installing and configuring SAP systems on-premise,...
View ArticleUse the official range-v3 with MSVC 2017 version 15.9
We’re happy to announce that the ongoing conformance work in the MSVC compiler has reached a new milestone: support for Eric Niebler’s range-v3 library. It’s no longer necessary to use the...
View ArticleCollaborate with others and keep track of to-dos with new AI features in Word
Focus is a simple but powerful thing. When you’re in your flow, your creativity takes over, and your work is effortless. When you’re faced with distractions and interruptions, progress is slow and...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Whys, Whats, and Whens of ValueTask
The .NET Framework 4 saw the introduction of the System.Threading.Tasks namespace, and with it the Task class. This type and the derived Task<TResult> have long since become a staple of .NET...
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