Chris Mitchell

Data and Analytics Insights

Complete guide to setting up Power BI connecting to Postgres w/ refresh enabled.

You may or may not have seen but Microsoft announced a couple new database services, namely Postgres...

Author: Chris Mitchell Date: 06/04/2018

Connecting to Blob Storage with a Shared Access Signature in Power BI

As you're likely aware Power BI supports dozens of data sources out of the box enabling you to mash...

Author: Chris Mitchell Date: 05/31/2018

Introducing the Azure SQL Data Warehouse DWU Calculator

Over a year ago my colleague at Microsoft, Justin Henricksen, introduce the Azure SQL Database DTU...

Author: Chris Mitchell Date: 12/16/2016

Sending events to IOT Hub over HTTP via REST

As you may know Azure IOT Hub is a scalable transport for communicating with Internet of Things...

Author: Chris Mitchell Date: 11/16/2016

Long Term Backup with Azure SQL Database

In a previous blog "Extended Backup Retention With Azure SQL Database", I outlined a method for...

Author: Chris Mitchell Date: 11/08/2016

Automating database migration to SQL Azure

Migrating databases to a new environment can be a tedious but necessary task.  For years DBAs have...

Author: Chris Mitchell Date: 10/03/2016

Extended “Backup” Retention with Azure SQL Database

As you may or may not know, Azure SQL Database is a great tiered offering that comes with backup...

Author: Chris Mitchell Date: 09/23/2016