Chris Mitchell
Data and Analytics Insights
Complete guide to setting up Power BI connecting to Postgres w/ refresh enabled.
You may or may not have seen but Microsoft announced a couple new database services, namely Postgres...
Date: 06/04/2018
Connecting to Blob Storage with a Shared Access Signature in Power BI
As you're likely aware Power BI supports dozens of data sources out of the box enabling you to mash...
Date: 05/31/2018
Introducing the Azure SQL Data Warehouse DWU Calculator
Over a year ago my colleague at Microsoft, Justin Henricksen, introduce the Azure SQL Database DTU...
Date: 12/16/2016
Sending events to IOT Hub over HTTP via REST
As you may know Azure IOT Hub is a scalable transport for communicating with Internet of Things...
Date: 11/16/2016
Long Term Backup with Azure SQL Database
In a previous blog "Extended Backup Retention With Azure SQL Database", I outlined a method for...
Date: 11/08/2016
Automating database migration to SQL Azure
Migrating databases to a new environment can be a tedious but necessary task. For years DBAs have...
Date: 10/03/2016
Extended “Backup” Retention with Azure SQL Database
As you may or may not know, Azure SQL Database is a great tiered offering that comes with backup...
Date: 09/23/2016