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Move Data from SQL Server to Azure Blob Storage with Incremental Changes – Part 1

By Ginger Daniel | Azure , Cloud , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server

One of many options for Reporting and Power BI is to use Azure Blob Storage to access source data.  Most of the documentation available online demonstrates moving data from SQL Server to an Azure Database, however my client needed data to land in Azure Blob Storage as a csv file, and needed incremental changes to […]

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Stretch Databases – SQL Server 2016

By Ginger Daniel | Cloud , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Stretch Database

  Microsoft has added another cool feature in SQL Server 2016 – Stretch databases – that provides a cost effective way to store historical or ‘cold’ data.  This feature is ideal for transactional databases with large amounts of cold data, typically stored in a small number of tables. Stretching is better than the traditional method […]

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What’s new in SQL Server 2014?

By SQLRx Admin | SQL Server

This article excerpt, by Johan Åhlén, originally appeared here: http://bit.ly/1dARmgI Just when we thought that nothing could get any better than SQL Server 2012, Microsoft announced news around SQL Server 2014. There’s even a SQL Server 2014 website where you can get a free trial. So, what’s new and cool? Hekaton In-memory Database Capabilities Hekaton makes it […]

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