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Quick tip for improving the observability of .NET APIs. A few days ago, I needed to analyze several log files in a text file containing thousands of HTTP requests generated from an API. …

Intro Back in February of 2020 Karl Fosaaen published a great blog post about abusing Managed Identity (MI) assignments, specifically those assigned to a Virtual Machine running in Azure. …

In our Cloud Monitoring Service Comparison Part 1 article, we’ve covered the high-level concept of cloud monitoring and observability as well as how AWS, Azure and GCP collect the monitoring data. …

If you’ve ever wanted to ingest data from the Microsoft Graph API using Azure Data Factory, then this article will show you how. This article will show how to ingest user data from the Graph API into an Azure Storage Account. Important Note: Always follow your organization’s best practices when…

TL;DR — You can use Query Store to identify poor performing queries quickly and easily! In SSMS open “Query Store” and run some of the queries and play around! Note — it does have some performance impact on production servers! SQL server 2016+ has a great feature known as “Query…

Step 1 - Open “Visual Studio”. Click on the “Continue without code” link. Step 2- Once the “Visual Studio IDE” is opened, expand the menu “View”, and, then click on the menu option “SQL Server Object Explorer”.

Why Database Project or Data-Tier Application Needs to be Created Today, almost all the “Applications” are built with “Continuous Integration” and “Continuous Delivery” Pipeline to “Build” and “Deploy” the respective “Applications” to the “Cloud Server”, or “On-Premise Server”. For the “Database Applications”, where the “Working Team” is big in size, it becomes very difficult to keep track of the changes…

A Virtual Machine Scale Set lets us easily create and manage multiple virtual machines. The Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set allows you to create and manage a group of Virtual Machines. The number of VM instances can automatically increase or decrease based on scheduled conditions. Scale sets give high accessibility…