by Contributed | Aug 12, 2022 | Technology
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Hey ADF fans! Here is a quick note on an important update that we will be making to ADF …
In Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics, the default timeout for new pipeline activities is 7 days for most activities:
In a few weeks, we are going to change that default for new activities in your pipelines to 12 hours before the activity will timeout. This change is in direct response to your feedback. We gathered feedback across channels directly from the ADF product, customer interviews, and on social media.
It became very clear that the default timeout of 7 days was too long and far outside of the most common activity execution times we observed and heard from you. Keep in mind that you should adjust the timeout on long-running processes (i.e. large copy activity and data flow jobs) to a higher value if needed.
When this change is deployed to ADF and Synapse pipelines, we will include banners and notifications in your browser UI to indicate this is the new default value for timeouts so that you are aware it has been implemented.
As always, a big Thank You for using ADF and for sharing your ideas and feedback on ADF. It helps us tremendously in the product team at Microsoft Azure to make ADF and Synapse the best products for data engineers!
by Contributed | Aug 12, 2022 | Technology
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We have released an update to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.1, version 3.1.1. The update addresses several issues that are important to our customers.
Updates in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.1.1 include:
Fixed
- Fixed null SqlBinary as rowversion. #1700
- Fixed Kerberos authentication failure when using .NET 6. #1696
- Fixed NullReferenceException during Azure Active Directory authentication. #1695
- Removed union overlay design and use reflection in
SqlTypeWorkarounds. #1699
To get the new package, add a NuGet reference to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient in your application.
For the list of changes in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.1.1, you can also see the Release Notes.
If you encounter any issues or have any feedback, head over to the SqlClient GitHub repository and submit an issue.
David Engel
by Contributed | Aug 12, 2022 | Technology
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Nicke McQuire, Director, Growth Innovation and Strategy at Microsoft recently published an article over on the Cloud Blogs site discussing how the future cloud will increasingly involve the intersection of 5G and AI to create a new application paradigm. He shares his insights on these trends and how they will propel innovation, growth, and solutions to tough industry problems. Read more of the blog post using the link below.
by Contributed | Aug 11, 2022 | Technology
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We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store. Given the significant number of new solutions, we want to acknowledge the top 10 most widely used solutions on monthly bases and to provide quick update on the following roadmap items.
Here are the latest roadmap items around SharePoint Framework and store:
- SharePoint Framework 1.16 in autumn 2022 with updates for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint
- Native support of Microsoft Teams JavaScript SDK v2 for SPFx solutions
- Viva Connections product type in AppSource for easier acquire of the Viva apps to your environment – no ETA
- Support for SharePoint Framework solutions in the Microsoft Teams store – no ETA
- Support SharePoint Framework extensibility for list and library new, edit and view panels
- and more…
We are looking forward to more great solutions that enable innovation, and help our customers get more done with Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.
These are the most widely used solutions and their providers last month:
Ichicraft Widgets: Your Digital Workplace
Ichicraft Widgets allows users to personalize their digital workplace in SharePoint or Microsoft Teams. It offers the user a canvas that can be filled with configurable widgets (blocks) that clearly display up-to-date and personalized information. This increases the productivity and involvement of employees in the organization.
Solution details:
Bitalus-StockQuotes
Show Stock information on your SharePoint Homepage with a couple of clicks. The Stock Quotes Web Part displays the configured stock information with display options. The integrated Field Template offers great flexibility to define your own look and feel. For static monitors, the integrated “Autorefresh” function offers the ability to configure an update interval in minutes. This way, the stock information will stay up to date without any page refresh.
Solution details:
Navigator 365 – Sharepointalist, Inc.
SharePoint & Teams content aggregation with search, grouping and filtering. Navigator 365 for Teams & SharePoint displays aggregated content with rich search, grouping, filtering, and layout capabilities. This versatile app works as a SharePoint web part, Microsoft Teams tab and Microsoft Teams personal app.
Solution details:
Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint
Ensure your internal communications are seen with SharePoint push alerts and newsfeed. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint provides unique notifications to employees through your existing SharePoint. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint simplifies your labyrinth of essential content into an easily navigable widget. Cross-channel performance metrics and customizable dashboards are included.
Solution details:
Employee Directory Plus – Support | HR365
SharePoint Employee Directory Plus is free, fully featured 30 days trial for one office 365 tenant upto 999 users. Employee Directory Plus displays information of employees in the organization in visually manner and allows you to find any user in fraction of seconds with various filters to select, departments, skills, Job title, manager, location, etc. It helps in retrieving important information on the fly. Now it comes multiple options to exclude users, enhanced performance and new fields i.e. date of joining, date of birth, etc.
Solution details:
HM Munich GmbH – Table of Contents
Dieses WebPart hilft Ihnen qualitativ hochwertige Dokumentationen zu erstellen. Die Modern Pages sind ideal für Ihre Dokumentation von Inhalten (als eine Art Wikipedia) im Office 365. Ohne ein Inhaltsverzeichnis ist der Überblick schnell verloren.
Solution details:
Modern FAQ
The Modern FAQ app provides users a better way to search for the answers to the questions they have in mind. It also helps the organizations to prepare the frequently asked questions, and answers categorized and presented to the users in a readable and most understandable format.
With a clean, user-friendly interface, users or employees can find the relevant information at the right time. The grouping of questions and answers will help the users to find the answers more effectively.
Solution details:
Image Map – APPS 365 LTD
Supercharge your processes and navigation by using any image to deliver interactive visual content. Create hotspot navigation with image maps. Create eye catching and interactive images with clickable regions to supercharge navigation with the Image Maps Web Part. Offer a more intuitive interface and add life to your site.
Description
Solution details:
Qualtrics Feedback
Add a way for your employees to easily give you feedback from within Viva Connections. Easily add a card to your Viva Connections surface to allow your employees to give you feedback in their flow of work. This card will link to your survey and let your employees know when feedback is due.
This Add-in requires a Qualtrics Employee Experience License.
What is Qualtrics Employee Experience?
The Qualtrics Employee Experience suite allows you to:
- Fix problems before they become part of your culture through predictive analytics.
- Go beyond measurement. Drive immediate change through automated actions.
- Transform experiences across the entire employee lifecycle.
Solution details:
My Links – Dalikoo
My Links is a SharePoint app where you can add and manage your web links through an intuitive interface. The links can point to locations across your Microsoft 365 environment as well as any web site on the Internet.
After installing My Links in a SharePoint page and adding your links, you can also install the My Links web part in another location and your original links will be available to you at the new location. My Links can be installed in multiple SharePoint locations, always providing you quick access to your original links list. Furthermore, you can update your links using the same intuitive interface from any location where the app is installed.
Solution details:
Resources
Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework.
Happy coding! ?
by Contributed | Aug 10, 2022 | Technology
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Today Data Exposed goes live at 9AM PT on LearnTV. Every 4 weeks, we’ll do a News Update. We’ll include product updates, videos, blogs, etc. as well as upcoming events and things to look out for. If you missed the episode, you can find them all at https://aka.ms/AzureSQLYT. This month we’ll recap all the updates and announcements in the database space July.
You can read this blog to get all the updates and references mentioned in the show. Here’s the August 2022 update:
By the way, this was a special episode, because we filmed it live, for the first time in over two years, from the studios on Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA! If you missed the live stream, you won’t want to miss this in-person action: https://aka.ms/AzureSQLYT. Here are some of the references from our awesome guests:
- SQL Server 2022 (CTP 2.1 available!), Bob Ward
- Azure SQL Database, Davide Mauri and Drew Skwiers-Koballa
- SQL Server on Azure SQL VM, Mohamed Kabiruddin:
- Microsoft Purview, Daniel Perlovsky
Product updates
We technically discussed this in the last update, but I wanted to make sure everyone saw the important announcement and that is SQL Server 2012 has reached end of support. Please see the blog to see the four options you have if you find yourself with SQL Server 2012 instances.
The other big update (apart from the updates already covered by our guests) is the general availability of premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance. This new hardware is what led to the study by Principled Technologies which shows how Azure SQL Managed Instance significantly outperformed Amazon RDS. Offering between double and five times the performance depending on workload, the three SQL Managed Instances tested also offer better price/performance by as much as 90.3%. The new hardware is available across different service tiers and might offer you more storage and more memory per vCore if you need it.
Other database updates
Starting in 2022 we’re trying to keep you updated on what’s going on with other database services at Microsoft, as we understand that oftentimes you’re using more than one service. Here are the updates I gathered from July 2022.
Videos
We continued to release new and exciting episodes this month. Here is the list, or you can just see the playlist we created with all the episodes!
- Daniel Perlovsky: How to explore your data estate using the Microsoft Purview data catalog
- [MVP Edition] Wolfgang Strasser: Track your data supply chain using Azure Purview
- Aditi Gupta: Backup and Restore your Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server workload
- Pieter Vanhove: Bringing the power of blockchain to Azure SQL Database and SQL Server with ledger
- [SQL Insider Series] Stephen Giles: Azure SQL DB – Automating scale up and down
We’ve also had some great Data Exposed Live sessions. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see them all and get notified when we stream. Here are some of the recent live streams.
- May the 4th be with Azure SQL (News Updates): this was a Star Wars-themed episode and it was so fun! Check it out for costumes, themed demos and slides, and fun!
- Azure SQL & SQL Server 2022: Intelligent Database Futures
- Azure SQL News Update: 2021 Year in Review
- Welcome to SQL Server 2022 Live!
Blogs
As always, our team is busy writing blogs to share with you all. Blogs contain announcements, tips and tricks, deep dives, and more. Here’s the list I have of SQL-related topics you might want to check out.
- Azure Blog, data-related
- Microsoft SQL Server Blog
- SQL Server Tech Community
- Azure SQL Tech Community
- Azure Database Support (SQL-related posts)
Events
We have several in-person and virtual events coming in the next couple months. Here are a few to put on your calendar and register for from the Azure Data team:
August 8-12: Visual Studio Live!, Microsoft HQ
September 19-22: Data Platform Summit, Virtual
September 24: Data Saturday Dallas
October 1: Data Saturday Atlanta
And, if you can’t make it to our events, find new, on-demand Data Exposed episodes released every Thursday at https://aka.ms/dataexposedyt
Microsoft Learn module of the month
Jumping the gun on the pick of the month, but in the case that any of you are newer to Azure SQL, it’s been a long time since I highlighted the Introduction to Azure SQL module. In this module, you’ll start with a brief history of why and how Microsoft built Azure SQL. You’ll then learn about the various deployment options and service tiers, including what to use for your organization, and when. These options include Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine. Understanding what platform as a service (PaaS) encompasses and how it compares to a traditional SQL Server environment will help you understand what you do and don’t get when you move to the cloud.
Anna’s pick of the month!
OK this month my pick of the month is a new thing I’m dipping my toes into on TikTok. The goal is to start sharing database tips in a short, consumable fashion while I walk my dog. Check it out, follow along, and let me know what you think! It’s running on TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@analyticanna), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/analytic.anna/reels/), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/AnalyticAnna).
Until next time…
That’s it for now! Be sure to check back next month for the latest updates on LearnTV. We also release new episodes on Thursdays at 9AM PT and new #MVPTuesday episodes on the last Tuesday of every month at 9AM PT at aka.ms/DataExposedyt.
Having trouble keeping up? Be sure to follow us on twitter to get the latest updates on everything, @AzureSQL.
We hope to see you next time, on Data Exposed :)
–Anna and Marisa
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