MS Learn module: Create dashboards in Azure Data Explorer

by Contributed | Oct 23, 2022 | Technology

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Dashboards tell a story through visualizations, and are an excellent way to view your data and see all of your most important insights at a glance. Azure Data Explorer dashboards in the web UI natively support the Kusto Query Language over data hosted in Azure Data Explorer. These dashboards will help you progress quickly from raw data to shared insights.

In the new module, you will create a dashboard from a query in Azure Data Explorer web UI. Add new tiles. Create dashboard parameters, and cross-filters for the parameters.

Create dashboards in Azure Data Explorer

More ADX MS Learn modules: 

1. MS Learn: Introduction to Azure Data Explorer , 


2. MS Learn: Write your first query with Kusto Query Language


3. MS Learn: Gain insights from your data by using Kusto Query Language


4. MS Learn: Characterize an unfamiliar dataset with Azure Data Explorer – Training | Microsoft Learn


5. MS Learn: Create dashboards in Azure Data Explorer – Training | Microsoft Learn

Microsoft is headed to VMware Explore 2022 in Barcelona

by Contributed | Oct 21, 2022 | Technology

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After seeing everyone in person at the San Francisco VMware Explore event, we are even more excited for Barcelona! If you want to know about Azure, the work we are doing with VMware, or just have a great conversation, we’d love to talk to you so stop by our booth! We will even have some cool stickers too.

This year we will have a bunch of sessions with Microsoft employees on stage, so if you’re building out your schedule check them out:

Microsoft Keynote: Transform your VMware Workloads with Microsoft Azure

Speaker:  Jeff Woolsey, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft

Date/Time:  Wednesday, November 9 @ 9:00 – 10:00 CET

Jeff will share how customers can transform their on-prem VMware environments using Microsoft Azure. Keynote attendees will learn how to:

• Address end of support for vSphere, Windows Server, and SQL Server


• Use familiar VMware skills to migrate or extend your VMware environment to the cloud, including hybrid cloud options with Azure VMware Solution and Azure Arc


• Modernize hybrid work with Azure Virtual Desktop and Horizon Cloud 

In addition, here are some other Microsoft Azure-related sessions that we highly recommend for learning more about Azure + VMware:

Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1 Preview 1

by Contributed | Oct 21, 2022 | Technology

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Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1 Preview 1 has been released. This release contains improvements and updates to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server.

Our plan is to provide GA releases twice a year with two or three preview releases in between. This cadence should provide time for feedback and allow us to deliver features and fixes in a timely manner. This third 5.0 preview includes fixes and changes over the previous preview release.

Fixed

• Fixed ReadAsync() behavior to register Cancellation token action before streaming results. #1781


• Fixed NullReferenceException when assigning null to SqlConnectionStringBuilder.Encrypt. #1778


• Fixed missing HostNameInCertificate property in .NET Framework Reference Project. #1776


• Fixed async deadlock issue when sending attention fails due to network failure. #1766


• Fixed failed connection requests in ConnectionPool in case of PoolBlock. #1768


• Fixed hang on infinite timeout and managed SNI. #1742


• Fixed Default UTF8 collation conflict. #1739

Changed

• Updated Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI (.NET Framework dependency) and Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI.runtime (.NET Core/Standard dependency) version to 5.1.0-preview1.22278.1. #1787 which includes TLS 1.3 Support and fix for AppDomain crash in issue #1418


• Changed the SqlConnectionEncryptOption string parser to public. #1771


• Converted ExecuteNonQueryAsync to use async context object. #1692


• Code health improvements #1604 #1598 #1595 #1443

Known issues

• When using Encrypt=Strict with TLS v1.3, the TLS handshake occurs twice on initial connection on .NET Framework due to a timeout during the TLS handshake and a retry helper re-establishes the connection; however, on .NET Core, it will throw a System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (258): The wait operation timed out. and is being investigated. If you’re using Microsoft.Data.SqlClient with .NET Core on Windows 11, you will need to enable the managed SNI on Windows context switch using following statement AppContext.SetSwitch(“Switch.Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.UseManagedNetworkingOnWindows”, true); to use TLS v1.3 or disabling TLS 1.3 from the registry by assigning 0 to the following HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSecurityProvidersSCHANNELProtocolsTLS 1.3ClientEnabled registry key and it’ll use TLS v1.2 for the connection. This will be fixed in a future release.

For the full list of changes in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1 Preview 1, please see the Release Notes.

To try out the new package, add a NuGet reference to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient in your application and pick the 5.1 preview 1 version.

We appreciate the time and effort you spend checking out our previews. It makes the final product that much better. If you encounter any issues or have any feedback, head over to the SqlClient GitHub repository and submit an issue.

David Engel