I read an article on Quartz describing how Satya Nadella used his philosophy and leadership style to transform the culture at Microsoft, a 130,000 employee company. The article was very interesting, and as a follower of Satya, I couldn’t resist myself from sharing the article. Here it goes: It was March 27, 2014, and Satya Nadella was about to make his first…
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With Azure, Microsoft is trying to make everything as simple as possible for users. This helps users spend minimal time on infrastructure setup and focus on working to get their functionality implemented. I think this is just one more way Microsoft is sticking to its CEO’s mission of helping people and organizations increase their productivity. Setting up databases on Azure…
Career: Get to the next level and make a larger impact. (Improve Blog, Get Azure Certification, Enhance Skills, Tap Network, Keep Applying) Impact: Reduce plastic usage (Avoid plastic and single use bottles and containers, Use paper bags, Follow the 3 R’s – Reduce, Recycle, Reuse) Body: Improve diet (more fruits), Exercise More (walk, take stairs, stretch!), Reduce Stress (meditate, relax,…
According to Wikipedia, MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU GRP. Development was led by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle Corporation. Creating a MariaDB database in Azure is an easy…
MySQL is an open source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL). Azure Database for MySQL is a managed service that allows users to deploy, manage, and scale highly available MySQL databases on Azure. Creating a MySQL database in Azure is an easy process as described below: 1. Open your Azure portal and click on “Create a resource”…
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service that is versatile and supports document, key-value, wide-column, and graph databases. If you would like to learn more about Azure Cosmos DB, please read my post on Azure Cosmos DB. Creating an Azure Cosmos DB can be done in multiple ways based on what technology you are using to build…