Load Balancing VMs in Azure Resource Manager

Here I want to show, in details, how you would go about to expose load balanced web server VMs using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) resources.

It sounds trivial but funnily enough I didn’t find an ARM template fully doing it without bugs.

I want to explain how it works and all the moving pieces (and there are a few).  I’ll...

Finding ARM template ApiVersion

Writing an Azure ARM template for a Resource Group is getting easier every day but it remains a sport for the initiated.

Here I want to give a tip about something I often find hard:  how to get the API version of a resource in an ARM template?

As everything hardcore in the platform,...

Querying tables in Azure Data Lake Analytics

Azure Data Lake (both Storage & Analytics) has been in public preview for a month or two.

You can get started by reading this or have a look at Azure Data Lake series for more posts on Azure Data Lake.

I thought I would kick some posts about more complex scenarios to display...

How to copy and backup SQL Databases in Azure

Let’s say you want a copy of your database for some reasons.  Scenarios might vary.  Maybe you want to bring back production DB to another environment.

There are at least three ways I could think to do that with the Azure Portal:

• Copy the Database
• Restore a version of the Database
• Backup / Restore the current Database

Copy...

Row Level Security in 3-tiers applications

Row-Level Security is a great new feature in SQL.  It is already available in Azure SQL Database and will be available in SQL Server 2016.

This is Cloud-First for you.

Row-Level Security allows you to forbid a user to see and/or access data they shouldn’t be able to see.  Traditionally this is implemented at the application level, for...