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What to know about the second round of Economic Impact Payment (EIP) checks and cards
The US Department of the Treasury and the IRS are working hard to get a second round of Economic Impact Payments (EIP) to people. You might have already gotten your payment direct deposited into your bank account. That started on December 29th. You might have gotten a...
Support Tip: Install Rosetta 2 on new Apple Silicon (M1) Macs to run apps built for Intel Macs
Apple recently announced Apple Silicon Macs. These devices run on 64-bit ARM (RISC) CPUs relative to the previous generation of Macs that ran on Intel CPUs. Apple also announced a translation layer called Rosetta 2 that allows apps built for Intel Macs to run on the...
How to save up to 50% on your ELT/ETL total cost of ownership (TCO)
The need for faster data quality Data validation, data transformation and de-identification can be complex and time-consuming. As data volumes grow, new downstream use cases and applications emerge, and expectations of timely delivery of high-quality data increase the...
Serverless Architecture and Concepts. What is it?
I needed to go through this subject this week so I thought that would be a good opportunity to share SQL Serverless Architecture concepts. 1) What is the difference between SQLOD and the former SQLDW? SQL Serverless or SQL On-demand Grow or shrink...
Cracking down on ticket bots that leave you out in the cold
For most of us, it’s been a long time since we’ve been able to attend a live event. Think back, if you can, to the last time you tried to buy tickets online to go to a concert, a game, or a play. Were you shut out because tickets sold out before you got yours? You’re...
Cloud Design Patterns: The Gatekeeper and Valet Key Patterns
When designing any solution, we often look for common practices or patterns that can be re-used. Think about this from a Software development perspective. You've probably heard about the Factory Method pattern, Builder or Singleton patterns. What about design...
Friday Five: Azure Data Factory, Teams Tips, More!
Cars Island On AzureDaniel Krzyczkowski is a Microsoft Azure MVP from Poland. Passionate about Microsoft technologies, Daniel loves learning new things about cloud and mobile development. His main tech interests include Microsoft Azure cloud services, IoT, Azure...
Hybrid relay control & rendezvous channel of Python edition
This article will introduce the difference between control channel and rendezvous channel. And code a simple python application to interpret its process. Pre-requirement: understand azure relay...
AzUpdate: Azure Defender for IoT Architectural Reference, Backup for Azure Managed Disks and more
Lots to cover this week. News stories to be discussed include the availability of Azure Defender architectural references for IoT, Backup for Azure Managed Disk is now in limited preview, Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows available for public...
How Your Program Works
Would you like to learn how your program works? You can learn it with Small Basic Online. Small Basic Online has new Debug feature. You can run your program step by step. And you can see values of variables and call stack. Steps to see how...
Microsoft 365 for Government User Group Meeting – Year in Review materials
We met to discuss the big changes that happened within the Microsoft government cloud instances: GCC, GCC High, and DoD. Watch the recording here. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/V7SMtvduzLg Below are a list of links to...
Azure Data Factory Enables Data Wrangling at Scale with Power Query
The Azure Data Factory team is excited to announce a new update to the ADF data wrangling feature, currently in public preview. Wrangling in ADF empowers users to build code-free data prep and wrangling at cloud scale using the familiar Power Query data-first...
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