I am a SQL Server/BI Developer and currently taking a voluntary year long break from work. I have been trying to keep up to date with self study/courses. I have recently started looking around again, with not a lot of success, and noticed Azure cropping up here and there. So, I took out a free sub and started looking at free online courses from Microsoft. Although I have got a nice Cloud Sql Server set up, the courses don't seem all that relevant to my type of work. They all seem to demo grabbing stuff from twitter or facebook and pumping out emails. I'm obviously missing something here. Any ideas/observations?
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Have you had a look at pluralsight, you can view the course contents before you pay your monthly subscription. -
The entire point of those is to use easily modifiable imputs / outputs to allow you to see what happens. I'm not sure where the best direction to point you in as I just use Partnersource and I doubt you have access to that.Originally posted by JohnJ View Post
Supposedly the next big thing MS are flogging is Azure Data Lake so look at how you get data into there and how you process it when its there.....merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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I'd consider opening a Ireland based consultancy and calling it 'Azure to be sure'
Not sure if that answers your question.Comment
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I hope you are a better agent than a comedian BIDIOriginally posted by Agent View Post
'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!
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haha, i'm not..Originally posted by northernladuk View PostI hope you are a better agent than a comedian BIDI
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Amazingly the Azure team do not have a data factory specialist. Which probably explains why there is not much you can do with it.
It doesn't help that blob storage is pants. You have to import it into explorer to do certain searches....Comment
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Thank you to all, including comedians.
I will look into the Data Lake thing.
I sometimes think that MS and other companies just throw ideas with wierd names around, to see if anything sticks to the wall, and then try developing the ones that do.
As to Ireland, to be sure, I love the place, especially the Azure Atlantic in the west, and of course the Black Stuff.Comment
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Better yet, forget everything about Azure and concentrate on AWS, which is already light years ahead of Azure and destined to stay that way.Originally posted by JohnJ View Post
And I say that as someone who works almost exclusively with MS development technologies (i.e. .NET, SQL Server etc.). Most places I've ever worked use the MS tech stack, but put their faith in the cloud provided by Amazon and not Microsoft. And for very good reasonComment
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Thanks, billybiro, I found your link to the Gartner report very useful.
As you noted, AWS seems to be far away the dominant and most mature vendor.
Also, the "cautions" on Microsoft Azure seem to revolve around the lack of knowledge about the offering from people like me, potential contractors and staff, and also the documentation.
I'm still a little confused as to why Azure would be a CV requirement for SQL/BI developers as opposed to Infrastructure Management people like DBA's and Network guys.
I was expecting to see special API requirements specified or some other low level coding changes etc.
I guess I need more education.Comment
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