It is soon time for me to celebrate 5 years since my first launch on Spotify! One fun thing about Spotify is the statistics available for artists. There I can now see that I have had over 1 million streams and how… Read More »
Stuck with a logic puzzle? Looking for cryptanalysis, code-breaking or decoding tools? Boxentriq now includes a section of resources for solving logical puzzles, code-breaking, geocaching mystery caches, CTFs, escape room games, or even the Cicada 3301 challenges. These resources of course also… Read More »
On the surface it may look similar to an ordinary SQL Database, but inside the Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a tremendously powerful Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) engine. Originally there was the SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) applicance, which cost in… Read More »
Elastic pools provide a simple and cost effective solution for running multiple Azure SQL Databases with a fixed budget. The price of an elastic database pool is based only on the total resources allocated for the databases, and is independent of the… Read More »
Azure Storage Explorer is a free tool that enables you to easily access your Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Lake or Azure Storage data. If you have worked with relational databases, for example SQL Server, you know the importance of a tool… Read More »
My article, Build Your First Planet-Scale App With Azure Cosmos DB, has now been published on the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog: Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s distributed, multi-model cloud database service for managing data at planet-scale. It started in 2010 as “Project… Read More »
Planetzine is an open source sample application, that show how to build a news web app that uses a globally distributed Azure Cosmos DB setup. It demonstrates the following functionality: Reading from the nearest database location (“local reads”) Search articles by author,… Read More »
Azure Cosmos DB is the world’s first globally distributed multi-model database service, that lets you elastically scale throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions while guaranteeing low latency, high availability and consistency. It was launched in May 2017 and was… Read More »
This is a follow up to my post I will speak at SQL Nexus 1-3 May in Copenhagen. It’s been another great conference and I’m honored to have been selected as a speaker. As promised during the presentation, here is my slide deck… Read More »
