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Building on my first Azure SQL Bindings blog post and taking inspiration from Drew Skwiers-Koballa's post on SQL Bindings, we are going to create a change data stream with Azure SQL Database. Now, usually, the first part of these blogs is a prerequisite section that goes over what you need to install locally to get started. From talking to many of ...

The Azure SQL Database has two main ways to track changes with data (rows/DML) as well as table changes. One of those methods is Change Tracking with the other being Change Data Capture. Today’s post will be going into depth on Change Tracking. Change Tracking and Change Data Capture So, what’s the difference between the two? Change Data Capture ...

Transactions have to be protected and you need to know when something is altered or prevent altering of records from the start. Ledger, available in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2022, helps to protect your database and establish trust, accuracy and integrity in your data. Ledger accomplishes this goal in a couple of ways. First, it provides...

Join us for part two of our Azure SQL database change management (CICD) series. This post covers local development environments with Visual Studio Code. Prerequisites Check For Database Projects to deploy correctly, we need to have the .NET Core SDK installed. You can get it here with a direct link for windows x64 here. You can also check i...

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of change data capture (CDC) in Azure SQL Database. What is Change data capture (CDC)? CDC provides historical change information for a user table by capturing both the fact that Data Manipulation Language (DML) changes (insert / update / delete) were made and the changed data. Changes are ...

Hasura makes data access easy, by instantly composing a GraphQL API that is backed by databases and services so that the developer team (or API consumers) get productive immediately. The nature of GraphQL itself and Hasura’s dynamic approach makes integration and iteration easy.

Django is a Python-based open-source web framework. It is a popular and well-liked web framework among developers all around the world. But wouldn't it be amazing to build a website with Django while also taking advantage of Azure SQL database's security, performance, high availability, and other great capabilities? In this article, we will crea...

Whether you’re new or seasoned to cloud, development, and SQL, building and architecting applications in the cloud has become a required skill for many roles. Today, we’re excited to announce a new learning path to help developers of all skill levels learn how to create applications quickly and effectively with Azure.

Over the last few years, we provided guidance on how customers could create their own retry logic or reuse existing libraries aimed to simplify this task for them, We decided to provide a better experience incorporating configurable retry logic capabilities in our client drivers portfolio starting with Microsoft.Data.SqlClient v3.0.0-Preview1.

This article showcases how to take advantage of a highly distributed framework provided by spark engine, to load data into a Clustered Columnstore Index of a relational database like SQL Server or Azure SQL Database, by carefully partitioning the data before insertion.