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Best Practices January 29, 2020 2 min read

The ultimate performance for your big data with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters

Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster enables intelligence over all your data and helps remove data silos by combining both structured and unstructured data across the entire data estate.

Best Practices December 11, 2019 3 min read

Tools and commands for running SQL Server 2019 on Linux

Organizations that embraced the option to run Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Linux have been looking forward to the release of SQL Server 2019.

Best Practices December 3, 2019 2 min read

How to configure persistent memory for SQL Server on Linux

With the release of SQL Server 2019 on Linux, Microsoft introduced persistent memory (PMEM) support on Linux.

Best Practices November 19, 2019 2 min read

How to deploy SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters

SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters is a scale-out, data virtualization platform built on top of the Kubernetes container platform.

Best Practices November 12, 2019 2 min read

Five essential skills for today’s database administrators

DevOps, the cloud, and new database technologies mean our jobs as database administrators (DBAs) are changing at an ever-faster pace.

Best Practices November 11, 2019 5 min read

Build an intelligent analytics platform with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters

In the most recent releases, SQL Server went beyond relational data and enabled support for graph data, R, and Python machine learning, while making SQL Server available on Linux and containers in addition to Windows.

Updates July 26, 2019 1 min read

Introducing SIOS high availability for SQL Server 2008/R2 in Azure

Support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 ended on July 9, 2019.

Thought Leadership July 22, 2019 2 min read

DBAs: It’s time to get up to speed with Azure

The summer solstice has passed, and DBAs are still asking how to get up to speed with Azure.

Best Practices April 16, 2019 2 min read

Automated machine learning from SQL Server with Azure Machine Learning

This post was co-authored by Jeff Shepherd, Deepak Mukunthu, and Vijay Aski.

Best Practices April 1, 2019 3 min read

How to develop and submit Spark jobs to SQL Server Big Data Clusters in IntelliJ

We’re delighted to release the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ support for SQL Server Big Data Cluster Spark job development and submission.

Best Practices March 25, 2019 3 min read

The Cloud Database Administrator—Tech success at scale

As a database administrator (DBA), I’ve always known what the role involved.

Updates March 7, 2019 3 min read

Free cloud data services training roundup

To help you stay up to date on online training opportunities, we’re releasing a monthly list of the latest free data and artificial intelligence (AI) trainings in one convenient post.

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