As every option available in Azure and particularly talking about SQL, for the classic question about What option is better for me? The classic answer is still valid and this is “It depends”.  Your necessity or your business workload or architectural design would influence in a determinant way with your decision.

In this article, I am going to explain in a sort of step-by-step guide an approach for configuring a new Azure SQL Managed Instance from now in advance called simply SQL MI.  It is so important to distinguish that exist different ways to arrive at the same result, but the most important is to understand the core concepts.

I must confess that I was not a big fan of management books or those books that help you to improve your soft skills, but I reached a point in my career where I realize potentially miss out on progressing and promotions due to the lack of these soft skills.  Nonetheless, primarily I saw myself struggling and delivering projects in a successful way, I have to clarify that this affirmation is based on the feedback of the customers, no delays in the delivery time, and the solution was adjusted to the requirements. However, I could identify as a remarked weakness the way I was delivering my messages during my communication through the project. 

Historically the use of User Defined Functions aka UDF has represented a great option to encapsulate logic into Database reusable objects, nonetheless, during the implementation of scalar UDF (a variation based on the function’s output) for MS SQL Server we have been suffering painful performance penalties until the arrival of version 2019, so in this article, we are going to address how the new Scalar UDF Inlining feature helps us to avoid performance problems and get the maximum value in our Database code inside SQL Server.

First at all, I would like to clarify something that maybe sounds evident, but sometimes we forget, the path is not a string, it is a fact that we must keep in mind to avoid headaches in our journey in Python.  Since Python 3.4 in advance, we count on a powerful and versatile module called pathlib.