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How to render SQL Server acyclic blocking graphs using Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, NodeJS and TreantJS – Part 2

Recap In the previous blog post (you can find it here: https://bit.ly/bcts1) we've seen how to setup...

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 08/04/2016

How to render SQL Server acyclic blocking graphs using Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, NodeJS and TreantJS - Part 1

Introduction SQL Server uses blocking - among other technologies - to ensure ACID transactions....

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 07/31/2016

Spark and Zeppelin BI using Azure HDInsight with OpenData Lombardia datasets

Intro In the previous blog post (Azure Data Lake BI sample using Open Data Lombardia) we've shown...

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 03/23/2016

Azure Data Lake BI sample using Open Data Lombardia

Azure Data Lake storage and Analytics compose the brand new Big Data solution provided by Microsoft....

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 03/07/2016

IoT: Send events to Azure Event Hub using Rust

IoT: Send events to Azure Event Hub using Rust Azure Event Hub Microsoft Azure offers a very...

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 01/25/2016

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted feature in action

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL database from v12 onwards offer a new security functionality called...

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 10/21/2015

Parallel DBCC CheckDB using GOlang

Parallel DBCC CheckDB in GOlang In this post I will show you how to use the concurrent features of...

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 09/29/2015

HandsOn - SQL Database Row-Level Security

Few days ago we released, in preview, a new cool feature for SQL Database: row-level security. This...

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 01/30/2015

Microsoft SQL Server meets Redis and Node.js: How to follow long running batches with Windows Phone (or any browser, really) – Day 2

Last blog post was quite code heavy (https://bit.ly/1xnRn4Y). We have implemented the RESP protocol...

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 11/17/2014

Microsoft SQL Server meets Redis: an elegant logging platform at your doorstep - Day 1

Microsoft officially announced Microsoft Azure support for Redis a little while ago. I was...

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 11/14/2014

Sneak peek: Horizontal scaling using “Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Preview” – Day 1

Few days ago we announced a new elastic framework for SQL Database. This new framework is very...

Author: Francesco Cogno Date: 11/04/2014