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Azure SQL Data Warehouse general availability expanding to 18 regions worldwide

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse in four additional regions—North Europe, Japan East, Brazil South, and Australia Southeast. These additional locations bring the product worldwide availability count to 18 regions – more than any other major cloud provider.

SQL Data Warehouse is your go-to SQL-based view across data, offering a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud solution. It is highly elastic, enabling you to provision in minutes and scale up to 60 times larger in seconds. You can scale compute and storage independently, allowing you to range from burst to archival scenarios, and pay based off what you’re using instead of being locked into a confined bundle. Plus, SQL Data Warehouse offers the unique option to pause compute, giving you even more freedom to better manage your cloud costs.

With general availability, SQL Data Warehouse offers an availability SLA of 99.9% – the only public cloud data warehouse service that offers an availability SLA to customers. Geo-Backups support has also been added to enable geo-resiliency of your data, allowing SQL Data Warehouse Geo-Backup to be restored to any region in Azure. With this feature enabled, backups are available even in the case of a region-wide failure, keeping your data safe. See this blog post for more info on the capabilities and features of SQL Data Warehouse.

Getting started with SQL Data Warehouse is easy and you can provision a data warehouse within minutes. It easily integrates with business intelligence tools like Power BI and with Azure Machine Learning for predictive analytics. Begin today and experience the speed, scale, elasticity, security and ease of use of a cloud-based data warehouse for yourself.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse regional availability

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is generally available in the following regions: North Europe, Japan East, Brazil South, Australia Southeast, Central US, East US, East US 2, South Central US, West Central US, West US, West US 2, West Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central India, South India, Canada Central, Canada East.

Learn more about Azure services availability across regions on Azure’s regional information page.

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We would love to hear from you about what features you would like us to add. Please let us know on our feedback site what features you want most. Users who suggest or vote for feedback will receive periodic updates on their request and will be the first to know when the feature is released.

Learn more

Check out the many resources for learning more about SQL Data Warehouse, including:

What is Azure SQL Data Warehouse?
SQL Data Warehouse best practices
Video library
MSDN forum
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9 Alternatives To The Sunrise Calendar App That Don't Suck

Get your life under control.

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Sunrise, the best calendar app ever made, is sunsetting on August 31.

Sunrise, the best calendar app ever made, is sunsetting on August 31.

:cryingforever:

The app is being killed as a part of an acqui-hire by Microsoft, and folded into Outlook for mobile, which sounds like a deathbed but is actually my favorite email client for iOS. Here are some alternatives that aren't as good, but will be just fine until the next Sunrise comes along.

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If you’re a Sunrise purist, just download Outlook (free, iOS and Android).

If you're a Sunrise purist, just download Outlook (free, iOS and Android).

The Good 🔥 – Outlook is an email, calendar, and cloud storage app in one. You can easily manage multiple accounts, which makes it great for merging your personal and work lives.

Best of all, Outlook’s calendar already incorporates a lot of Sunrise features. The daily agenda and 3-day view look nearly identical. Email in the app is surprisingly good, too. Outlook sorts messages into two inboxes: Focused (for important stuff) and Other (for everything else).

The Bad 👎 – Because Outlook’s email and calendar views are side-by-side, you might get caught in an email vortex when all you want to do is look up where you’re supposed to be right now.

Also, activities on Outlook for mobile can’t be synced with the Outlook web app, so you’re shackled to your phone. Currently, there are no plans to revamp the web app or integrate the Sunrise experience. However, you *can* open the Outlook app and go to Settings > Help & Feedback > Suggest A Feature to give the team a lil’ nudge in the right direction.

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You Should Probably Change Your Dropbox Password Right Now

Over 60 million account details were stolen in 2012, and the list has been leaked.

Hackers obtained around 68 million email accounts at that time – and it was recently revealed that passwords were also at risk. The database was sent to Motherboard by the breach notification service Leakbase.

In a blog post, Dropbox wrote, “If you signed up for Dropbox prior to mid-2012 and haven’t changed your password since, you’ll be prompted to update it the next time you sign in.”

The forced reset is a “purely preventative measure,” according to the company.

You can check if your email address has been a part of a breach at haveibeenpwned.com.

You can check if your email address has been a part of a breach at haveibeenpwned.com.

haveibeenpwned.com

The site reveals which data associated with your email has been compromised.

The site reveals which data associated with your email has been compromised.

haveibeenpwned.com

Change your Dropbox password here – and turn on two-step verification.

Change your Dropbox password here – and turn on two-step verification.

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Skypicker offers flights for up to 90 percent less with a cloud-based ticketing portal

In 2012, Skypicker founder Oliver Dlouhy was looking for an affordable flight from the Czech Republic to Portugal. Noting the expense of the direct flight options available online, Dlouhy spent a day combing through various websites, finally purchasing two less costly flights from different airlines. The lengthy process inspired Dloughy to create a new online [&#8230;]
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