An Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB (2020-11-16)

 SQLServerCentral Newsletter for November 16, 2020 Problems displaying this newsletter? [View online](. [SQL Server Central]( Featured Contents - [An Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB]( - [Bridging the Divide between Data Management and DevOps]( - [Using Triggers to Replace Scalar UDFs on Computed Columns]( - [From the SQL Server Central Blogs - Deploy SSRS Projects with Two New PowerShell Commands]( - [From the SQL Server Central Blogs - Export SQL Server Configurations for DR purposes]( Question of the Day - [Non AG Aware]( The Voice of the DBA  Daily Coping Tip Find out something new about someone you care about I also have [a thread at SQLServerCentral]( dealing with coping mechanisms and resources. Feel free to participate. For many of you out there working in a new way, I'm including a thought of the day on how to cope in this challenging time from [The Action for Happiness Coping Calendar](. My items will be on [my blog](, feel free to share yours. The Virtual Experience I just completed the [2020 DevOps Enterprise Summit]( a few weeks ago, and it was enlightening to me to see that so many people liked this experience. They appreciated not traveling, being able to drop in and out of sessions while near their home and family. I found that lots of people also liked the MVP Summit last spring, which was also virtual. The [PASS Summit]( went virtual recently, and I went through an all day pre-con as well as a few sessions during the week. As many of you, I'm a bit screen and Zoom fatigued, and while I enjoy learning and seeing people passionate about a technology, I'm tired of seeing it inside these four walls. I worry that I'm in the minority. I recognize the value of the inclusion of those that don't have the time or money to attend a conference live. I appreciate that the ability to watch when and where it fits into my schedule. I love that others can pause, rewind, get captions, and more that spread knowledge out. However, I think we've lost something, and certainly lost some of the collaborative, discussions and debates that we can have in live events. While I can reach out and discuss with anyone, it's hard to discuss with just someone. Others can join in, and semi-private channels, and especially the times during breaks when I can get up and walk while talking, are things I miss in the virtual experience. If virtual events were spread out more, and not everything in my work world were virtual, perhaps I would feel differently, but for now, I don't love the virtual experience, and feel it's a pale shadow of a SQL Saturday, user group, or live conference. I hope that this isn't something I do too often, but I suspect this will be a permanent part of our lives forever. Steve Jones - SSC Editor [Join the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums](   Featured Contents [An Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB]( Sucharita Das from SQLServerCentral Introduction Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model platform-as-a-service (PaaS) database. Any web, mobile, gaming, and IoT application that needs to handle massive amounts of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data may use Azure Cosmos DB. Guaranteed high availability, high throughput, low latency, and tunable consistency help in reading and writing data at a global […] [Bridging the Divide between Data Management and DevOps]( Additional Articles from Redgate Join Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Grant Fritchey to discover the key strategies you can implement to bridge the divide between data management and DevOps in your organization. [Using Triggers to Replace Scalar UDFs on Computed Columns]( Additional Articles from Brent Ozar Unlimited Blog Using Triggers to Replace Scalar UDFs with Brent Ozar. From the SQL Server Central Blogs - [Deploy SSRS Projects with Two New PowerShell Commands]( Aaron Nelson from SQLvariant I built two new PowerShell commands to deploy SSRS projects, and they have finally been merged into the ReportingServicesTools module. The commands are Get-RsDeploymentConfig & Publish-RsProject. While the Write-RsFolderContent... From the SQL Server Central Blogs - [Export SQL Server Configurations for DR purposes]( gbargsley from GarryBargsley Is your SQL environment prepared for a disaster? There are big and small disasters and depending on your perspective big and small can mean different things. Preparing your environment...   Question of the Day Today's question (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor):  Non AG Aware Which of these in SQL Server 2019 is not handled by an Availability Group failover? Think you know the answer? [Click here]( and find out if you are right.    Yesterday's Question of the Day (by Steve Jones - SSC Editor) Testing the Effects of PoSh What parameter should I include if I want to see the results of (most) PowerShell commands, without actually executing the command? Answer: -WhatIf Explanation: The WhatIf parameter is used by many PoSh commands to let you know what will be executed without actually making changes. Ref:  - [PowerShell Basics: Don't Fear Hitting Enter with -WhatIf]( - - Great Power(Shell)...Great Responsibility - [Discuss this question and answer on the forums](    Database Pros Who Need Your Help Here's a few of the new posts today on the forums. 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We are converting from Teradata to SQL Server so […] SQL Server 2017 - Development [SQL - How to compare data of a column while iterating row by row and insert new]( - I have the below data in an SQL Server(2017) table POS_ID Term Code Status IsActive TR 101 In Progress true TR 102 In Progress true TR 103 In Progress true CA 151 In Progress true CA 152 In Progress true DA 161 In Progress true The requirement is I want to iterate each row and […] SQL Server 2016 - Administration [PARALLEL_REDO_WORKER_WAIT_WORK.: Not sure how relevant this may be..]( - Attached file shows the top waits... PARALLEL_REDO_WORKER_WAIT_WORK.: Not sure how relevant this may be for this morning Latency reported by multiple users accessing a number of web pages and apps that connect to this server.. just seeing it first time But this wait type has been predominantly much higher than all other waits. 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