Data Archives - Ballard Chalmers

EASY ANALYTICS AND DATA VISUALISATION PART 2 — WORKING WITH SQL IN AZURE SYNAPSE ANALYTICS

13th January 2021
BC Technical Team
Azure Modern Data Warehouse, Blog, Business Intelligence, Data, How-To, Software Development

In this post, we focus on using SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics and conduct tasks such as creating tables and views, testing the tables, and formatting the data.

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Easy Analytics and Data Visualisation Part 1 — Data Engineering with Power Query

31st December 2020
BC Technical Team
Azure Modern Data Warehouse, Blog, Business Intelligence, Data

In the first post of this Azure Synapse Analytics & Power BI series, we cover data engineering with Power Query using Excel data files.

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Turning Data into Value with Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI

28th November 2020
BC Technical Team
Azure, Azure Modern Data Warehouse, Blog, Business, Data, Software Development

Businesses experience common obstacles in their journey towards deriving value from their data. Azure Synapse Analytics is a cloud-based, end-to-end solution to help organisations, wherever they are in their data journey. How can Azure Synapse Analytics help solve issues and help business leaders to trailblaze with their data, during these challenging times?

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Azure SQL Autumn Announcements

3rd November 2020
BC Comms Team
Azure, Data, Feature Announcements, News, SQL Server

The investment in data, database and the Azure SQL family continues from Microsoft with a host of recent announcements.

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Best of Azure – Windows Server & SQL Server

2nd September 2020
BC Comms Team
Azure, Data, Infographic, News, SQL Server

Here are some interesting statistics released by Microsoft about Windows Server and SQL Server on Azure. A lot of great reasons to be using Azure.

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Analytics & AI, How to Maximise Your ROI

20th August 2020
BC Comms Team
Azure, Business Intelligence, Data, Infographic, News

Here are some interesting statistics released by Microsoft regarding analytics and AI. Another good reason to be using Azure Synapse Analytics.

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Azure Integration Services – Data Integration Hub – Framework

30th June 2020
Geoff Ballard
Application Integration, Azure Integration Services, Ballard Chalmers, Blog, Data

A look into Azure Integration Services compared to BizTalk Server and Ballard Chalmers' Data Integration Hub - Framework and its use.

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Azure Cosmos DB – New Features Now Generally Available

8th June 2020
BC Comms Team
Azure, Data, Feature Announcements, News

As with all areas of Azure we are seeing updates and new features constantly. With Azure Cosmos DB, these are features to make possible swift application development across teams and enhanced enterprise-level security accessible to apps of any magnitude or scope.

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Azure Synapse Link – Now in Preview

5th June 2020
BC Comms Team
Azure, Azure Modern Data Warehouse, Data, Feature Announcements, News

Microsoft has announced a cloud-native execution of HTAP called Azure Synapse Link. A capability which eliminates the obstacles between Azure operational database services and Azure Synapse Analytics.

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Azure SQL Database – Security Features

Azure SQL Database offers many features to build a comprehensive, secure and stable data platform. Here we explore the range of security features available.

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