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Introduction to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

DZone

Built on Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a suite of features for big data analytics. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Blob Storage's capabilities are combined in Data Lake Storage Gen2.

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Building an Optimized Data Pipeline on Azure Using Spark, Data Factory, Databricks, and Synapse Analytics

DZone

Modern tech stacks such as Apache Spark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, and Azure Synapse Analytics offer powerful tools for building optimized data pipelines that can efficiently ingest and process data on the cloud.

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No need to compromise visibility in public clouds with new Azure services supported by Dynatrace (Part 2)

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This is the second part of our blog series announcing the massive expansion of our Azure services support. Part 1 of this blog series looks at some of the key benefits of Azure DB for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure HDInsight. Fully automated observability into your Azure multi-cloud environment.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Bandwidth-friendly Query Profiling for Azure SQL Database

SQL Performance

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. Unfortunately, my excitement was short lived for a couple of reasons.

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Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage

The Morning Paper

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. have altered the many assumptions that guided the design and optimization of the Snowflake system. Customer data is persisted in S3 (or the equivalent services when running on Azure or GCP), and compute is handled in EC2 instances.

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Azure SQL Managed Instance Performance Considerations

SQL Performance

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance became generally available in late 2018. Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system. GB per vCore.

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