Sep 26, 2022 | Azure, Azure Cosmos DB
By: Brad Lathrop Are you exploring database options? Considering moving data to the cloud? Work for a company that utilizes a plethora of Microsoft products? If you answered yes to any of those questions, chances are you may have come across Azure Cosmos DB at...
Sep 16, 2022 | Azure, Databricks
By: Brad Lathrop Azure Databricks is a Microsoft data analytics platform that’s “optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform” (1). It has three environments developers can choose from to create applications: Databricks Machine Learning Databricks...
Aug 12, 2022 | Azure, Microsoft Power BI
By: Ken Adams Over the last number of years our company, Key2 Consulting, has seen a shift in our clients’ desires to move to the cloud. We historically were a business intelligence shop that mostly architected on-premise solutions. Creating these solutions...
Mar 9, 2022 | Azure, Azure Data Factory
By: Shannon Nagy When transitioning from on-premise ETL processes with SQL Server to the cloud with Azure, you may be used to dealing with large numbers of SSIS packages in order to perform data movement operations on many tables at once. You may have even worked...
Nov 29, 2021 | Azure, Databricks
By: Phillip Sharpless When building solutions with Azure Databricks (see my previous blog post on Databricks for a quick overview of the analytics service), it’s more than likely that the need to access secure data will arise. Access to some data may require...
Oct 12, 2021 | Azure, Azure Data Factory
By: Shannon Nagy Are you a mid-career Microsoft-based data integration or ETL/ELT professional who has not yet migrated operations to the cloud and are still trying to orient yourself in the post-on-premises data landscape? Perhaps you have spent the last...
