by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 25, 2018 | Azure, Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL database Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Azure Cloud with full communication with the company’s LAN and provides most SQL Server 2017 features. Benefits SQL Database Managed Instance has plenty of benefits: Security:...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 24, 2018 | Azure, Security
Microsoft Azure provides a way to manage cryptographic keys and application secrets in a way that it doesn’t expose them to applications. Let’s say that you have a web application and you access this application via a key stored in web config or it is...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 21, 2018 | Azure, Azure SQL Database, SQL Server
In this post, you will read about the differences between index tuning in SQL Server (on-premises) and SQL Azure (cloud). But what is an index? Consider an index as a contents page. When comparing a SQL database index and a Contents page in a physical book, you note...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 18, 2018 | Azure, Integration
Azure Service Bus is a cloud delivery messaging service. Azure Service Bus Models Service bus has two primary ways of enabling messaging, these are : Queue model [one to one]: Many Front End applications send messages to the queue and one application on the back end...
by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | May 17, 2018 | Azure, Portal
In 2018, Microsoft announced the possibility to customize Azure Portal dashboard. How can someone do that? Easy, since it is familiar with JSON format its piece of cake. It’s only three steps, download JSON – edit JSON file – upload JSON. Let’s...
