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Published • 4 min read

Migrating Data to Microsoft Azure Files 

As you start to use Azure Files, you may need to move large amount of existing data into the Files service. There are many options for moving data efficiently to Azure Files, and which you choose will depend on where the data is originally located. This post discusses these options, and how to achieve best performance using each option.

Published • 3 min read

Azure Automation: Your SQL Agent in the Cloud 

In this blog, I’ll show you how to leverage the Azure Automation service to accomplish a customer requested scenario of truncating tables when a particular database approaches its maximum size capacity. Although targeted towards a specific scenario, the highlighted example provides the framework to enable one to accomplish countless Azure SQL DB scenarios that one would normally need a SQL Server Agent to perform.

Published • 2 min read

Azure Web Sites Extensions 

Site Extensions are management endpoints allows extending your site management tools. You can create new site extensions for use with your websites and also submit new site extensions through the Site Extension Gallery submission portal.