Category: Microsoft Azure

Secure Connection to Azure SQL Database

Carla Abanes Leave a comment

As a database administrator, I started my journey in deploying managed SQL databases on the cloud, and I highly recommend deploying Azure SQL.

Azure SQL belongs to the family of managed resources on the Azure cloud platform that runs the very familiar SQL Server engine. For most of these database resources, the Microsoft Azure platform takes care of the management, scalability, reliability, and performance recommendations. It also provides the underlying infrastructure to run the SQL Server database engine. Thus, the database administrator can focus on other aspects of work in the cloud.

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How to create and configure Microsoft Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline Agent

Vitalii Zaichenko Leave a comment

What is CI / CD Pipeline in Azure DevOps?

In the process of learning Azure DevOps, you’ll face numerous challenges, but the most sophisticated of them is setting up the CI Pipeline to work appropriately.

The pivotal point is the Azure Pipelines Agent that establishes and monitors connection with the machine running the DevOps CI Pipeline. Though it is a regular practice, the procedure has its peculiarities. The current tutorial will focus on them and explain how to choose the Azure DevOps CI Pipeline agent and how to configure it correctly.

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How to Create and Deploy Azure Database for MySQL Server using Azure Portal and Workbench

Nisarg Upadhyay Leave a comment

This article describes the step-by-step deployment process of the Azure Database for MySQL Server.

Open the Azure portal and log in using the appropriate credentials. Note: For demonstration purposes, I got a pay-as-you-go subscription to Microsoft Azure. For more information about the Azure MySQL pricing model and various Azure subscriptions, refer to Subscriptions, licenses, accounts, and tenants for Microsoft’s cloud offerings.

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Connecting to SQL Azure from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Nisarg Upadhyay Leave a comment

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications through the Microsoft data centers. It provides the Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and supports different database servers, programming languages, and tools.

Azure allows creating databases on various database server platforms, both open source and paid. The deployment is fast and scalable. Besides, the Azure license model is flexible, which helps to reduce the infrastructure costs.

The current article will highlight the following points:

  1. Create an Azure SQL Server instance.
  2. Connect to the Azure SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio.
  3. Create an Azure SQL database using SQL Server Management Studio.
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Introduction to Azure Database Migration Service (ADMS)

Jignesh Raiyani Leave a comment

Microsoft Azure platform provides an Azure Database Migration Service (ADMS) – a convenient solution for the Azure Cloud-based Databases migration tasks in a straight forward way. In this article, we elaborate on the AMDS essential work and integrated processes. 

We put in the focus issues related to the migration of object resources on Cloud to Cloud and on-premises database server to cloud. Also, we’ll deal with the cross-database migration compatibility between different database technologies.

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Developing Azure DevOps Extension

Vitalii Zaichenko Leave a comment

Introduction

Azure DevOps Services provides a lot of space for importing your custom extension. Work items, pipeline tasks, dashboard widgets, and other options can serve this purpose.

This article will be about developing extensions for pipeline tasks – I will describe how to create the easiest sample extension that will help organize your own continuous integration.

But first, let’s describe the whole process of hosting the extension on Azure DevOps and how it works. Then we will discuss its detailed development route. Read More

How to install SQL Server vNext and Azure data studio on Ubuntu 18.04

Nisarg Upadhyay Leave a comment

Azure data studio is a cross-platform database management tool. This tool is used to connect, configure, and administrate SQL Server instances installed locally or in the cloud. This tool can be installed on the following operating systems:

  1. Microsoft Windows
  2. Linux
    • Redgate
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
  3. macOS

Initially, Microsoft introduced this tool as the “SQL Server operations studio.” Later they renamed it Azure Data Studio. You can get more information about it here.

In this article, I am going to explain the step-by-step installation process of SQL Server 2017 and Azure data studio on Ubuntu. I have divided the article into two parts. Firstly, we will install SQL Server 2017, and later I will explain the process of installing Azure Data Studio. For demonstration purposes, I have created a virtual machine and installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it. You can download Ubuntu here. Read More