Azure Synapse is the new Generation of SQL DW (Azure SQL Data Warehouse), that is launched in the past year In November 2019 the First announced for Azure SQL Synapse was in Microsoft Ignite 2019, With Azure Synapse you can bring together cloud data warehousing and big data analytics into a single service platform, Azure Synapse is massively parallel processing (MPP) Engine. Microsoft Added on it many features, With Azure, Synapse Compute is separate from storage, this means you can scale compute independently for the data in your System (APP), With Azure synapse, you can bring the relational Data and Non-relational data together in one place and easily you can do your query and your analytics on a huge amount of information, Azure Synapse build for a massive parallel query for Analytics not for transaction database, Azure Synapse uses Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for more information About Azure Data Lake Gen2 Check this Post, Azure Synapse Support (Apache Spark integration, Power BI, Azure ML), Also you can take a look to this demo with Rohan Kumar this demo is part from Microsoft Ignite 2019 Keynote and you can Follow Rohan Posts from here
Consistency Architecture in Azure Cosmos DB
In my first article in Azure Cosmos DB, we talked about What is Cosmos DB and How to provisions it, then in the Second article we talked about Partitioning Architecture in Azure Cosmos DB, then in third Article we talked about Azure Cosmos DB Global data distribution Architecture, today we will complete our series to talk about Consistency Architecture in Azure Cosmos DB For more information about my Azure articles check this link, Keep Following to learn More about Azure and Cosmos DB
Introduction
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Provide 5 level of Consistency (Strong, Bounded staleness, Session, Consistency prefix, Eventual) Before Explaining What is Consistency, Why I should take care about Consistency, Which Consistency is best for my APP design before all of that let us talk first about CAP Theorem
Azure Cosmos DB Global data distribution Architecture
In my first article in Azure Cosmos DB, we talked about What is Cosmos DB and How to provisions it, then in the Second article we talked about Partitioning Architecture in Azure Cosmos DB. And today we will complete our learning to understand What is global distribution in Azure Cosmos DB? For more information about my Azure articles check this link
When we say global distribution you Should think Automatically in Cosmos DB because it is the most solution in the market provide this feature global distribution, But why global distribution we should be interested in it for couple of reasons unlimited elastic write and read scalability, Yes Cosmos DB provides a solution to read and write option in multiple regions most of the databases solutions provide read scalability but in Azure Cosmos DB we have also write scalability.
Continue reading “Azure Cosmos DB Global data distribution Architecture”Partitioning Architecture in Azure Cosmos DB.
Introduction
In my first article in Cosmos DB, I talked about the basic information about How to provision Cosmos DB, and today we will complete our discussion in How Cosmos DB Partitioning work, and What are the Logical Partition and Physical Partition then in the upcoming posts we will talk more and more about Designing and Architecture Layers for Cosmos DB Such as Consistency levels in Cosmos DB Which Consistency levels are suitable with your APP, What are Cosmos API choices, Disaster Recovery and High Availability in Cosmos DB Keep Following ..
- Cosmos DB Physical Partition
- Cosmos DB Logical Partition
- Cosmos DB Partition Key
- How to Choose the Right Partition Key
- Resources
Full Architecture for SQL Backup to Blob Storage in Cloud
One of the tasks that any DBA should know How to take backup to URL or restore a backup from URL and this’s the easiest part very simple steps and command but this is not our main objective, we should understand all of the components how it is working, what is the different options, what is the changes happened before SQL Server 2016 and After SQL Server 2016 to take the maximum benefits from this service or feature here in my article I will try to conclude all of this things as much as I can.
- Introduction.
- Benefits from taking backup to URL.
- What is Azure Storage Blob?
- What are the Pre-requisites to do SQL backup on the URL?
- What is the Difference between SAS Token and access key Azure Storage
- When I Should use SAS Token or access key Azure Storage
- When the Backup files will be saved as Block Blob or Page Blob
- How to Generate and configure Access Policy, Access key, and Shared Access Signature
- Create SQL Server Credential using access key or SHARED ACCESS SIGNATURE
- Backup to Azure Storage and restore from Azure Storage.
- Validate the Backup File.
- Notes and Limitation for SQL backup to URL.
- References and Resources.
