Azure

How to connect Azure Data Factory / Synapse Pipelines to Google BigQuery without losing your sanity over connection tokens

When I talk about knowing the struggles with the Cloud (as I did recently at PASS 2022), I really mean it, and this is one example of it.

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How to fix "Connect Timeout" and/or "Cannot open server xxx requested by the login" when connecting to Azure SQL Managed Instance in redirect mode

Here is something that will save you lots of time and headaches when trying to connect to Azure SQL Managed Instances, especially from onprem servers or from other clouds; I had to repeat this multiple times to multiple actors, so I know it will happen to someone else too.

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SQL Notebooks: On the right track to enhance Data Analysis on SQL Server

Since about a couple of versions ago, Azure Data Studio introduced Jupyter Notebooks support for SQL Server (and with SQL Server 2019 “Big Data Clusters” on the horizon, it was about time)

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How to Show Better Execution Plans in Azure Data Studio

Azure Data Studio is starting to mature and some neat features are coming to the vscode-based (and now multidatabase and multiplatform) tool.

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