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Hack for speeding up data migration for large tables using SSMA for Oracle
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Introduction SSMA is a great tool for data migration if you plan to migrate data to SQL database without any additional cost and setup hassle. It initiates a single data migration process for each individual table. However, if you have a very large table in your database, the total data migration time will increase because the SSMA will not initiate multiple copy process for a single table. If you have a database with similar data distribution with handful of tables holding most of the data and none of the other available migration services and tools are suitable for you, then use following hack to split your data into multiple chunks for faster data migration. …
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Announcing Microsoft R Application Network retirement
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In June 2021, we announced that Microsoft Machine Learning Server & Microsoft R Open will be retired on July 1, 2022. In continuation with the retirement process, the Microsoft R Application Network (MRAN) website and CRAN Time Machine will be retired on July 1, 2023. How does this change affect me? After January 31, 2023, we will no longer maintain the CRAN Time Machine snapshots. Existing snapshots will be available until June 30, 2023. Microsoft R Application Network website and CRAN Time Machine will be shut down on July 1, 2023. For R users, the “checkpoint” package will only serve CRAN snapshots up to January 31, 2023 and will cease to function entirely…
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Lesson Learned #265: Deadlock due to Non-Optimized Queries
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The pgcrypto module is a cryptographic extension that provides a number of hashing and cryptographic functions using MD5, SHA, HMAC, AES, BLOWFISH, PGP, and CRYPT, as well as DES and 3DES. When encrypting data, one must take into an account the more difficult you make it to read data, it also takes more performance overhead to query and decrypt this data. With that in mind, it's important to pick your encryption strategies based on the sensitivity of your data. There are two basic kinds of encryption, one-way and two-way. In one-way encryption you don't ever care about decrypting the data into readable form, but you just want to verify the user knows what …
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Lesson Learned #265: Deadlock due to Non-Optmized Queries
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How to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster
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This article contains a few recommendations for reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. If you want to minimize the number of unused cores, you can use the following general guidelines to improve the density of your workloads and reduce the number of VMs to the bare minimum. Use the cluster autoscaler, Kubernetes Event-Driver Autoscaler (KEDA), and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to scale in and scale out the number of pods and the number of nodes based on the traffic conditions. Make sure to properly set requests and limits for pods to avoid assigning too many resources in terms of CPU and memory to the user-defined w…
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Getting started with Apache Log4j and Azure Data Explorer
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Logging is an essential component of any good software development process. Through logging, we can detect and fix issues, understand the behavior of users, and obtain valuable business insights. However, logging involves many complex problems that we need to solve, and it would be best if we didn’t do it all alone. The best practice often is to employ one of the many logging frameworks that are at your disposal. This will enable you to focus on improving your app and delivering value for your users, while the framework does all the heavy lifting. One such framework is the Apache Log4j 2. What is Log4j? Log4j is a popular logging framework for Java applications …
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Windows 10 or Windows 11 GPO ADMX – An Update
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Hi community, I am Helmut Wagensonner, a Cloud Solution Architect – Engineer at Microsoft. In a former blog (Windows 10 or Windows 11 GPO ADMX - Which One To Use For Your Central Store?), where I did a comparison between Windows 10 and Windows 11 ADMX files, I promised in my comments to do a follow-up when both 22H2 ADMX versions are finalized. A couple of weeks after the ADMX files for both versions were available for download, I did another comparison. I used the Windows 10 October 2022 ADMX files vs. Windows 11 September 2022 templates. Still, we have differences between the two versions. I did not compare the diffs from the old blog with the current ones…
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Quickstart: DenyAction Effect in Azure Policy
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Background Azure policy introduced a new policy effect named 'DenyAction' recently, which enables the user to block requests on intended action to resources in case the critical resources are changed. This article introduces the 'DenyAction' effect and the expected behaviors with a demo. Please note that the DenyAction effect is now in public preview. We will cover two sections in this article: Policy definition. The expected behavior of the effect. Policy Definition The DenyAction effect is designed to block the operation of intended action to modify specific resources. Currently, only the DELETE action is supported. When a re…
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Auditing for Named replicas and Geo replicas of Hyperscale Azure SQL Database
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In this blog, we will explain how auditing works for some of the latest features for Hyperscale Azure SQL Database I.e. Hyperscale Named replicas and Geo replication & auto failover groups. Auditing for Named Replicas: We added auditing support for Hyperscale’s Named replicas. When you create a named replica for a database, the database-level audit configuration of the primary database is copied to the named replica and the configured actions will be audited. Server Level Auditing Policy for the Named Replica is picked up from the server on which the named replica is placed. Auditing for Hyperscale Geo Replicas We added auditing suppo…
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Create a 3D collaborative app for Teams Meeting using Live Share SDK, Live Share Canvas and Babylon
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Teams Live Share seamlessly integrates meetings with Fluid Framework. As a recent GA SDK in Oct, 2022, Live Share provides a free, fully managed, and ready to use Azure Fluid Relay backed by the security and global scale of Teams. With this technology, participants in the same Teams meeting can easily interactively work together on the same content or object, for example, with real time shared annotations, operations, to exchange ideas efficiently. Starting from the simple live canvas demo, I verified more functions by integrating below parts together: Live Share Canvas Fluid UI/Web Component BabyLon Js Customized Fluid Relay Service and …
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AKS Ingress Perf Testing: Nginx vs AppGW (AGIC)
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Hello There If you're hosting any real time, highly transactional and synchronous workload, low network latency and the distributed resiliency of Kubernetes can be very relevant to you. In this post I hope to objectify performance and implications of these factors for L7 ingress in Kubernetes. On We Go Assuming you're leveraging the Azure CNI, as long as we don't dive into the intricacies of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, when thinking about AKS and ingress load balancing options we typically have the option of selecting between Nginx or Azure Application Gateway (AppGW). Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) within K8s will manage App…
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Voices of Healthcare Cloud - 2022 Lookback
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Voices of Healthcare Cloud is a webinar series that showcases how Healthcare is seeing positive business and clinical outcomes with cloud technology. We bring new and creative solutions to you at least once a month, so we hope you tune in live or catch the on-demand recording after the session is completed. If you want to get direct invites for these sessions, you can let us know by filling out this form. We had a tremendous line-up of speakers/presenters this year covering a wide range of thought-provoking ideas. Here's a quick recap of our sessions from 2022: Hyperautomation in Healthcare, Beyond RPA Hyperautomation is a business-driven, d…
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Lesson Learned #264: Python and PyODBC error messages.
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Today, I worked on a service request that our customer got several issues that I would like to share with you my findings here. 1) pyodbc.Error: ('HY000', '[HY000] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server]Connection is busy with results for another command (0) (SQLExecDirectW)') This error ocurrs when the Python code is trying to open a new cursor when we have a previous one with results. import os import pymssql import pyodbc conn = pyodbc.connect("DRIVER={ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server};server=servername.database.windows.net,1433;UID=username;PWD=Password;database=dbName;Mars_Connection=no"); cursor = conn.cursor() cursor.execute('s…
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Microsoft Purview in the Real World (Dec 30, 2022)
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Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to that official documentation and contact your Microsoft Account team as needed. Links to the docs.microsoft.com data will be referenced both in the document steps as well as in the appendix. All the following steps should be done with test data, and where possible, testing should be perf…
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The session limit for the elastic pool is 30000 and has been reached.
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On a previous blog post written by one of my colleagues it has been discussed the many ways to reach a connection limit in Azure SQL DB. Recently, we worked on a case where the customer was getting the following error when trying to connect to a SQL database that was part of an elastic pool using SSMS. In the documentation of the connection limits for the elastic pool we can see that the limit that was reached was “Max concurrent sessions”. Regardless of the service objective, this session limit is consistent for all tiers. So, scaling up will not provide more sessions. Fortunately, the customer had an SSMS session where we could ex…
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Azure Boards – Organize and Plan All of Your Work
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In our daily work we constantly encounter what I like to call ‘The Time Thieves.’ These are the things that take away our ability to be proactive in our day-to-day job. They are the reasons we fall behind in our work and can’t always meet delivery dates. I’ve listed several of the time thieves that all of us can relate to: Unknown dependencies Too much work (WIP) Neglected Work Conflicting priorities Unplanned work We are all too familiar with these items listed above. While I wish I had a magic bullet, I don’t, but we’re going to look at some ways in which we can help alleviate these. There very much needs to be a cultural change within your organizati…
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MTC Weekly Roundup - December 30
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Hi everyone! Can you believe the year is already coming to an end? I don’t know about you, but this December *flew* by! As we look ahead to 2023, my goal is to continue to feature more of our amazing community members and highlight events and content that will help you learn more about what’s new at Microsoft. Thank you for an amazing 2022, and I look forward to what the next year will bring for the MTC! Now, let’s dive into what’s been going on in the MTC for our last weekly recap of the year! MTC Moments of the Week For our last MTC Member of the Week of 2022, we are spotlighting a new member to the MTC, @XXplore, who joined us earlier this …
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What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2022
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Can you believe it’s already December of 2022? The new year is peeking in, and we are so excited about what 2023 will bring for Microsoft Teams. With people going back to the office, we continue to define new ways for async and collaboration experiences. This month, we offer even more ways to enhance meetings with new Whiteboard features, ways to clear up your chats, and new certified devices so you never miss a moment to be successful! Speaking of sneak peeks, check out the opportunity to try out new Teams Premium features today! aka.ms/TeamsPremium Chat and Collaboration Devices Platform Frontline Workers Government Chat and collaboration…
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Track IP addresses consumption with Azure Application Insights – Part 1
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Introduction In this article we will demonstrate how to send custom event telemetry to an Azure Application Insights instance through PowerShell. We will track our Azure Virtual Network IP addresses consumption but note that after reading this article you will be able to track any kind of information. What do we want to track? We need to track the number of IP addresses that are used on our subnet, to do that we will need to send custom event telemetry with the following information: The subnet id. The number of IP addresses that are used. The IP addresses limit in order to track if the subnet is reaching out his number of available IP address…
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Azure Marketplace new offers – December 29, 2022
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 125 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Get it now in our marketplace [attachment=29233:name] AlmaLinux 8.3: Ntegral offers this premier image of AlmaLinux 8.3 optimized for production environments on Microsoft Azure. Equipped with all the latest features, this Azure virtual machine is designed for compute-intensive workloads that include Node.js, web applications, and other database platforms. [attachment=29234:name] AlmaLinux 8.7: ProComputers has configured and certified this Azure virtual machine image …
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Lesson Learned #263:Mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server in DBMail
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Several days ago, I worked on a service request that our customer got the following error message: The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using XXX. Exception Message: 1) Exception Information =================== Exception Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlIMail.MailFramework.Exceptions.BaseMailFrameworkException Message: Cannot send mails to mail server. (The specified string is not in the form required for an e-mail address.) Data: System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal TargetSite: Void Send(Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlIMail.MailFramework.Framework.IMessage) HelpLink: NULL Source: DatabaseMailProtoco…
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Outlook allows you to send and receive email messages, manage your calendar, store names and numbers of your contacts, and track your tasks. However, even if you use Outlook every day, you might not know some of the cool things it can do to help you be more productive. Open multiple Outlook Windows Have you ever wanted to quickly go back and forth between your inbox and your calendar or view them side-by-side? Switching between Email, People, Calendar, Tasks, Notes, Folders, Shortcuts, and Add-ins is simple. Select the appropriate button on the navigation pane. If you want to open any of those options in a new Outlook window, right-click the buttons rathe…
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What is the 5G Session Management Function (SMF)?
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The 5G Session Management Function (SMF) is a critical 5G core component that performs a fundamental role in the 5G Service-Based Architecture (SBA). The SMF is primarily responsible for interacting with the decoupled data plane, creating, updating and removing Protocol Data Unit (PDU) sessions and managing session context with the User Plane Function (UPF). Both the UE and the gNB employs the Next Generation Application Protocol (NGAP) to carry Non-Access Stratum (NAS) messages across the N1 or N2 reference interfaces in order to request a new session. The Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) receives these requests and handles anything to do with co…
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Slack to Teams Migration with Microsoft Gold Partner
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Choosing the right migration partner is a needle mover for businesses planning to migrate from Slack to Teams in a secure and non-disruptive way. And when exploring migration partners, it is worth choosing one that is a Microsoft Gold Partner. Migration service providers with a Microsoft Gold Partner certification have a close partnership with Microsoft for various products, including Microsoft 365, of which Teams is a core aspect. Here are some of the core benefits for businesses of all sizes and industries of working with a service provider with Microsoft Gold Partner certification for Slack to Teams migration: Significantly Lower Risks of Migration Down…