Category: Microsoft Azure

Applying SQL Transformations and Handling Missing Values in Azure ML

Ben Richardson
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In this article, we will introduce SQL transformations in action. We will also see how to handle missing values in our dataset.

Consider a scenario of a movie rating dataset containing records of different movies along with the average user ratings associated with each movie. The ratings are in numeric form ranging from 1 to 10 with 1 as the lowest rating and, respectively, 10 as the highest rating (though no movie in the history has achieved 10 rating:). Suppose that we want to convert the numeric ratings into categorical ratings. For instance, we want to replace ratings of 1-3 with the categorical value “poor”, of 4-6 with “average” while ratings of 7-10 will have the value “good”. We can accomplish it with SQL transformation in Azure ML Studio. Read More

Microsoft Azure Vs Amazon Web Services: What’s your Ultimate Choice?

Vikash Kumar
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Have you heard the term cloud computing? Do you wish to try your hands on cloud platforms? Well, if you seem to be a newbie to this new world of cloud computing, then set back as we are going to discuss the cloud platforms that are beneficial for generating more business. It’s vital for an individual to get themselves familiarize with different leading cloud service providers before selecting the best cloud network to begin their business or career with cloud computing.

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Microsoft Graph or Azure Active Directory Graph API: Which is better?

Kibo Hutchinson
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Are you a .NET developer who is stuck in great confusion when it comes to choosing Azure Active Directory or Microsoft Graph?

We all have look at those multiple posts on which you can choose for better web development. In this article, we will be providing some guidance along with a bit of roadmap to clarify things for all of the existing and new developers who want to access directory-based features. Let us begin. Read More

How to Test Azure Web Application Performance through Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio

Amarendra Babu
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Before deploying your application into production, doing a performance load test is imperative for measuring future performance and ensure that your application is production-ready.

Testing is essential for every application to make sure that any application works and performs according to the desired requirements. During the application testing process, we can attempt and find out if any imperfections are remaining in the application. There are numerous sorts of testing like functional testing, unit testing, acceptance testing, and integration testing. We compose Functional and UI tests to see whether the application is working as per the requirements. Read More

Migrating SQL Server Database to Azure SQL (PaaS)

Esat Erkeç
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In this article, we will highlight SQL Server Data migration to Azure SQL (PaaS).  You can find different approaches for this migration process because SQL Server offers different types of tools and features for this migration. Some of these are:

These migration approaches have some pros and cons. But if you ask my opinion, Data Migration Assistant is better than others because, in this migration process, you will face fewer migration problems or issues. Data Migration Assistant will be more helpful to handle these issues.

In this article, we will specifically mention Database Migration Assistant, also known as DMA. At the same time, we will make a small demo of SQL Server Management Studio Deployment Wizard.

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Azure Cosmos DB Analysis

Kiran Gutha
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Azure Cosmos DB is the first globally distributed, multi-model database service for building world-scale applications. Over the years, it has been providing momentum for Microsoft’s Internet-scale services, which are now available to all Azure developers. The service is designed to allow customers to flexibly and horizontally scale throughput and storage across any number of geographic regions. Read More

Choosing Azure SQL Purchase Model and Service Tier

Esat Erkeç
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When we are beginning to think of migrating our on-premises databases to Azure SQL, we have to decide on a proper purchase model, a service tier, and a performance level. Before starting the Azure SQL migration process, we have to find logical and provable answers to the following questions:

  • Which purchase model is suitable for my apps and business requirements?
  • How much budget do I need?
  • Which performance level meets my requirements?
  • Can I achieve the acceptable performance of my apps?

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Configuring Azure SQL Long-term Backup Retention

Esat Erkeç
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Backup is the most important case for database administration because it provides business continuity solutions for high availability and disaster recovery. For this reason, Azure SQL database (PaaS: platform as a service) can make a backup automatically and restore it at a point in time. However, the retention period of backup files changes according to the service tiers.

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Azure SQL Geo-Replication and Failover Groups

Esat Erkeç
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Azure SQL offers different types of business continuity solutions. One of these solutions is Geo-Replication that provides an asynchronous database copy. You can store this copy in the same or different data center locations (regions).  There can be four readable database copies. In the documentation of Microsoft notes, the recovery point objective (RPO is the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time) is less than 5 seconds.  If we want to automate and make (users will not affect) failover mechanism transparent, we have to create the auto-failover group.

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Getting Started with SQL Server 2017 on Linux in the Azure portal

Prashanth Jayaram
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SQL Server 2017 now is considered as a hybrid database enterprise solution as it expands its market and is ported to other operating system platforms. It also includes mainstream support for Linux machines. The Cloud makes the life of administrator much easier, now it’s no longer daunting task to configure the SQL Server instance. The easiest way to explore SQL Server on Linux is to provision a virtual machine through Microsoft Azure portal – portal.azure.com. The Linux azure virtual machine will come pre-configured with Linux and SQL Server 2017.

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