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Steve Flowers
Apr 22, 20244 min read
Quantify Azure Cosmos DB Per Partition Autoscale Savings
Azure Cosmos DB has a feature in preview that can translate to massive cost savings for your workload. Per-region, per-partition...
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Steve Flowers
Feb 14, 20246 min read
Automate SQL Column Metadata in Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview is Microsoft's unified data governance platform . Purview has grown a lot in my time at Microsoft, and the platform is...
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Steve Flowers
Oct 18, 20235 min read
Cosmos DB All Versions and Deletes Change Feed with .NET and Fabric Spark
Quick links Enabling All Versions and Deletes Mode Using Spark Using .NET Introduction Azure Cosmos DB All Versions and Deletes change...
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Steve Flowers
Jun 17, 20224 min read
Cosmos DB Hierarchical Keys (sub-partitioning)
Hierarchical partitioning or subpartitioning in Cosmos DB.
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Steve Flowers
May 20, 20223 min read
Reporting on Cosmos DB resiliency across Azure subscriptions
Understanding and implementing proper resiliency in Azure Cosmos DB can ensure your application remains available during an outage. There...
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Steve Flowers
Jun 16, 20215 min read
Azure Synapse Spark: Working with Executors
update 4/28/2022: Greater flexibility and parameterization has been introduced. See the details at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure...
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Steve Flowers
Apr 21, 20214 min read
Azure Data Explorer and Synapse Spark Part 1
Many organizations are implementing streaming data flows via IoT devices or app telemetry. In the modern data platform, bits and bytes...
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Steve Flowers
Mar 18, 20212 min read
Convert your Power App to code
At Microsoft Ignite earlier this month, the Power Apps team announced Power Fx, " low code language for expressing logic across the...
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Steve Flowers
Nov 14, 20203 min read
Using Fluent Bit to replicate NGINX logs to Azure Storage
In this post I will introduce you to Fluent Bit and show how to enable the service on an Ubuntu server to forward nginx access logs to an...
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Steve Flowers
Oct 28, 20204 min read
Azure Data Explorer: from the field
Azure Data Explorer (ADX) is a wonderful service that enables data engineers to take a simple, streamlined approach to big data...
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Steve Flowers
Aug 11, 20201 min read
Azure IoT Central publish device error code
Azure IoT Central Error Code: 400.470.006.319 Cause This error occurs when an attempt to publish an interface in IoT Central that has no...
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