I was creating Azure Analysis Service from Portal and observed that B2 tier pricing is being shown significantly lower than B1 when one clicks on "view full pricing link". I checked the normal analysis service pricing page and see there B2 is priced higher than B1 which it should be. Is the pricing shown on the "view full pricing link" erroneous?
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We have a bunch of legacy tableau reports which we have published on the tableau server. We are planning to embed it onto a Drupal web page as well as internal Sharepoint site. The end users/agencies who need to view the report interactively are not part of our organization. I wanted to check if each of these end users will need any special license to view the reports and interact with it for example apply some filter in the report.
To give a gist of requirements we have our data warehouse built on Azure SQL. Using this data we need to develop a metric based report for each of the agencies that we work with. We need to then share it with them by embedding this report on a Drupal site where each agency has their separate login and they need to view metrics only specific to them.
We are non-profit and want to minimize the cost. If not Tableau is there any other effective way or any other BI tool which we can use.
Every person who uses Tableau needs a license (and MFA is coming this year to enforce that).
For end users outside your firewall, you will need the relevant firewall settings to allow the users to connect.
It might be more cost-effective to purchase Tableau Online (this is different to Tableau Server) licenses to allow them to get access to their workbooks.
Either way, you can embed dashboards in Drupal, WordPress, whatever but you must have a Tableau user license to login and use them (the other option is a Tableau Server Core license, but if you want to minimise cost this is probably not a viable option)
I work at an advertising agency.
We have been asked to implement GCP (BigQuery) for an advertiser in our commercial distribution.
I've been told that each agency should have different access rights to BigQuery.
I think it is possible to divide the permissions by project.
Can we have the following configuration?
■Project 1
・BigQuery is used.
・The data is stored in the advertising area.
・Browse and edit permissions are given only to agency A
■Project 2
・Use BigQuery
・Store data in the CRM domain
・Only agency B is authorized to view and edit the data.
I have bit confusion on Azure SQL Security pricing as below, please help in this.
Security Center has cost $15/Server/Month. While enabling advanced data security for the SQL, it says 'Turn on Advanced Data Security for all databases on this server, at the cost of 15 USD/server/month. This includes Data Discovery & Classification, Vulnerability Assessment, and Advanced Threat Protection for the server.'
Both are pointing to the same cost or do we have to pay $15+$15=$30 altogether for a SQL server?
Thanks
Regards
Sakaldeep
I got the answer here. We need to pay only once.
"The cost of ADS is aligned with Azure Security Center standard tier pricing per node, where a node is the entire SQL Database server or managed instance. You are thus paying only once for protecting all databases on the database server or managed instance with ADS."
Why Azure has given 3 different storage accounts. Is there any major difference between this account.
General-purpose v2 accounts
General-purpose v1 accounts
Blob Storage accounts
As 1 already can do everything in Azure storage like blobs, files, tables, and queue.
Any suggestions appreciate.
There are several differences, most are in the limits/performances, additional supported features on the newer versions ex:
There are also replication cases which are not offered for specific storage account types, ex:
and finally a full overview which includes the above and adds on the Supported services, performance tiers and access tiers is below:
Although Azure seems to have datacenters in Germany, I cannot select that region when creating a new SQL server on Azure Portal.
The Azure pricing page show prices for this region, so why it is not listed in the available options? Any restrictions?
There are restrictions on some Azure regions, based on your Azure account. A US based Azure account will typically not be able to use these regions for tax and legal reasons.
Full details on the German data-center GA is at this blog https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-germany-now-available-via-first-of-its-kind-cloud-for-europe/
Customers in the EU and EFTA can continue to use Microsoft cloud options as they do today, or, for those who want the option, they’re able to use the services from German datacenters
Since 2016 unfortunately nothing has changed until now (2023). Region Germany West Central (Frankfurt/Main) is available for Azure SQL but you can't create one. I worked last year a few month to install our infrastructure at Azure in that region until trying to create Azure SQL. You will get an error message when selecting the server location: "This location is not available". This has nothing to do with free or pay-as-you-go subscription. The answer from the dev support after opening a ticket (october 2022):
"Unfortunately, due to high demand for Azure SQL in this region, we
are not able to approve your quota request at this time. To ensure
that all customers can access the services they need, we are working
through approving quota requests as we bring additional capacity
online. We are continually investing in additional infrastructure to
expand our available resources. Apologies for the delay in being able
to increase the quota on your Azure subscription. No additional
details are needed from you at this time, your request will stay
pending. Thank you for your patience until we report back."
The problem is that microsoft is not working transparent und you loose so much time and money. They simply have no resources anymore.
People are asking this but they don't get answers and their questions get locked:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/94278a11-c5ac-4239-b092-a256bb5c4488/why-germany-west-central-location-is-not-available-for-subscription?forum=ssdsgetstarted
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ac0376cb-2a0e-4dc2-a52c-d986989e6801/unable-to-create-sql-database-server?forum=ssdsgetstarted#00a598f2-5fd4-4c7e-ab91-913fae5ba7cc
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/52606
I am wondering whether Azure SQL resources in this region will be available after some time or not?