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It's been a busy year for data platform and analytics professionals, with a whole heap of technical announcements from Microsoft, major regulatory change looming and the continuing progression of best practice in database development.

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This is a guest post by Tom Austin from Coeo partners Redgate Software.

The financial services industry is heavily regulated, complicated, and challenging in IT terms. Conversely, it’s also the industry that has the most to gain from DevOps initiatives. 

This post is the first in a series I'll be doing, showing you how to achieve certain things in PowerApps that aren't immediately obvious but are very useful to enable you to create powerful, feature rich applications.

Automating SQL Server with PowerShell

If you perform the same task more than once, you're probably asking yourself "how can I automate this?" PowerShell provides the tooling to automate monotonous tasks that require manual effort.

Since its announcement 8 years ago, Azure SQL Database (DB) has been the go-to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for SQL Server workloads in Microsoft Azure. During that time, SQL DB has matured to the point where the chasm that once existed with the boxed product we know and love, has narrowed..

This is a quick start guide to PowerShell and by the end of reading it, you should be able to be write your own scripts and explore the language confidently.

Since becoming a Mum I’ve found working life hard. Really hard. Don’t get me wrong, I expected disruption and compromise but what I didn’t expect was the overwhelming feeling of guilt. Guilt I impose upon myself, I’m sure, but it’s constant. I'm pretty sure that the guilt that comes along with..

Updated: December 2019

Licensing is confusing at the best of times, but even more so when the product is constantly in flux, improving and evolving. Coeo has recently been delivering more and more training on Power BI and common questions we get from delegates revolve around licensing and..

Update February 2020: Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now part of the Azure Synapse analytics service.

Recently I was asked what the difference was between Azure SQL Database (SQLDB) and Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQLDW). If you connect to them both via Management Studio there doesn't seem to be much..