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Ever since my post about automated deployments of Azure VMs with SQL Server, I’ve been pondering on how to pick the best locations and to understand what exactly it is under the hood that you actually use with PowerShell. In a nutshell, Azure follows a structure called the Azure Resource Manager (ARM). Unfortunately, ARM is not human-readable, so you need to a tool to be efficient in using it. There are quite some tools available, and from Microsoft, there is Azure Bicep, Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell....

T-SQL Tuesday No. 169 – December 2023 I’ve got the honor to invite you to the blog party SQLTuesday, tagged as #tsql2sday, for this December 2023. Many thanks to Steve Jones (blog, twitter) for letting me host this month’s blog party! December is the last month of a year. I believe December is the season of being thankful, or at least looking back. I also believe that we generally do not say “thank you” enough to people....

OneLake Sorry, my title indeed said “OneDrive” and that is actually by intention. It is really easy to mix them up, just look at this screenshot I did on my Laptop. It shows the file explorer and it very much looks the same. . OneLakes logo is also shown in the taskbar in the bottom right corner next to the clock in Windows, just like OneDrive. At this point, I want to mention it, since I’ve fogotten to mention it in the last post....

Finally, I’ve found time to dig deeper into Microsoft Fabric So finally I’ve found time to dig deeper into Microsoft Fabric, the newcomer in Microsofts data platform family. I’ve played a bit with it and I thought I should blog about some distinct differences in between Azure Synapse Analytics and SQL Server. In the beginning, I have to admit, that MS Fabric quite confused me in terms of what it could mean for Azure Synapse....

My friend, Deepthi Goguri, invited everyone to blog about two topics as a request for T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday is a once a month occurring event, a so-called blog party, for which someone invites others to blog about a topic. You can learn more about this on this website of tsqltuesday itself. Deepthi, aka dbanuggets on both Mastodon and Twitter, asked two to write about two topics, I quote her directly here:...