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Tag Archive: Azure

  • Azure Virual Machine CPU Cores Quota

    June 25th, 2016 in Azure, Blog, JSON

    Did you know that by default your Azure subscription has a limit on the number of CPU cores you can consume for virtual machines? Until recently I didn’t. Maybe like you I’d only ever created one of two small virtual machines (VMs) within my MSDN subscription for testing and always ended up deleting them before coming close to the limit. Per Azure subscription the default quota for virtual machine CPU cores is 20. To clarify because…

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  • My Introduction to the SQL Server Community

    May 20th, 2016 in Azure, Blog, Community, Purple Frog Systems, SQL Server

    Once I was blind, but now I see! In the early part of 2015 (I think) a work colleague and friend suggested that on Thursday evening I attend the SQL Server Midlands User Group. The event was completely new to me, I’d never before ventured outside my professional comfort zone, or even had any appreciation that there was such a gathering about SQL Server locally. Anyway, I registered and got some more details. The event was currently ran…

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  • What is U-SQL?

    February 18th, 2016 in Big Data, Blog, Cloud

    By now you may have heard about U-SQL, the new kid on the query language block. But what is U-SQL? Where is it? What’s it for? I was lucky enough to be at the 2015 MVP Summit in Redmond, at which one of the sessions was hosted by Michael Rys (@MikeDoesBigData), talking about U-SQL. As it’s creator, there’s no-one better to learn the ropes from. I was pretty much blown away by what it can do and the ease of access, so I’ve…

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