Tag Archives: SQL Database

Data Lakes: What are they, and what are they used for

“Data Lakes” is a term that was coined in the last decade. This form of storage grew with the advent of Big Data. The name, and the analogy were both coined by James Dixon, CTO for Pentaho. The idea behind a Data Lake is to have a place to store massive amounts of raw data […]

Azure RBAC – Role based Access Control

Resource manager is your infrastructure team in the cloud. In my last post, I talked about Tags and Templates. In this post, my last one on the Resource Manager I will talk about Role-Based Access Control (“RBAC”). RBAC in Azure allows you to wall-off specific duties for your DevOps team. With RBAC you can grant […]

Azure Resource Manager

Azure resource manager is your infrastructure team in the cloud. Resource manager is where you bring your infrastructure to life. It is used to group resources together to create a comprehensive and cohesive group of resources. These can be virtual machines, databases, web applications and more. Everything you would want to deploy, manage and monitor […]

Getting Started with Azure – SQL Database

In my last post I brought to your attention the free Azure cloud offer from Microsoft. As I said, when Microsoft comes out with something new that they want people to adopt, they are very generous! They usually start by giving the public the tools needed to learn the new product. Now that we have access and […]

Getting Started with Azure

When Microsoft comes out with something new that they want people to adopt, they are very generous! They usually start by giving the public the tools to needed to learn the new product. Azure is a perfect example. Microsoft’s FREE offer may not last long, so, if you are interested in learning about a very competitive cloud product, NOW is the […]

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