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Are you in the process of cloud migration or just started your journey towards Azure ? If yes then this is the right time for you to go through the book which Microsoft just released it and it's available for Download for Free. This book is called Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide. Download it from here:  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/azure-strategy-and-implementation-guide/en-us/ Happy Learning !!!

When Microsoft introduced full featured community Edition for developers, I was curious to know what all differences it has with other paid versions? Because I can almost do everything with the community edition then why do I need a paid version? When I searched MSDN I found my answer and difference was quite considerable. However, if you are an Individual Developer and doesn’t need too many features, then community edition is best to start with. There are notable differences between each of the versions/editions and it’s worth knowing it. Instead of I type everything here, Microsoft made it very easy for us to compare the various editions and take a decision. Compare Visual Studio Editions https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/compare/ Microsoft nicely explains each the notable difference between various editions – don’t miss to go through this. Happy Learning !!! Harsh Shah

Microsoft has completely redesigned the documentation website and they have created a one single unified place to have the entire documentation available. Turn over to this link:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/ docs.microsoft.com It's now very easy to view all the documentation at one place and get help faster than earlier. For example, If I want to know more about .NET. Just click on the .NET tab and you will be taken to the place where all the information regarding .NET  (C#, F#, .NET Core etc) is available at a unified location. Getting help and learning more about the product is now easy with this new unified approach. Thanks to Microsoft for taking this step and helping developers to learn more and get help faster than ever. Happy Learning !!!  Harsh Shah

As of today Azure is available in 34 Regions and each region has feature availability. If you want to know which features are available in each region then follow the below link https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/regions/services/ Happy Learning !!! Harsh Shah

If you are planning to move your apps to Azure, than there is a tool called Azure Readiness Assessment which inspects your on-Primes (Physical or Virtual) environment and provides you with the detail Report. This report lists the steps you need to take to move your application to Cloud. This Automated Assessment provides detail report and steps you need to take to make any design changes or configuration changes to your apps in order to move to Cloud Download the tool from here: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=391029&clcid=0x409 More information here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/vm-readiness-assessment/ Happy Learning !!!

Today   I am going to summarize various ways by which you an create Windows Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure. [This article applies to Windows Virtual Machines] By Using Azure Portal If you are a beginner then this is the right place to start with for creating virtual machines in an easy to use portal. Please follow the below guided information to create your first Virtual Machine on windows. Follow the below link for more detailed explanation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/quick-create-portal By Using Resource Manager Template When you create a Virtual Machine you may require to setup multiple things like setting up storage, Deployment and other required resources. These settings may require to perform separate actions during the setup. Hence in order to manage all of these resources in a single coordinated operation templates are used. Follow the below link for more detailed explanation https://azure.mi...

Here is the quickest way to know the list tables in SQL Server which doesn't have Indexes. This will be very useful when we have large number of tables in our SQL Server database. SELECT DISTINCT so.object_id,                 so.NAME FROM   sys.indexes si        INNER JOIN sys.objects SO                ON SO.object_id = si.object_id WHERE  SO.type = 'U'        AND si.index_id = 0 Happy Learning !!!