SOME USEFUL TOOLS LINKS…

• Gartner Magic Quadrant Animation – http://bit.ly/2bX7sfv
• Azure Services Interactive View – https://azurecharts.com/
• Online JSON Validator / Formatter – http://codebeautify.org/jsonviewer
• CRON Timer String Builder – https://crontab.cronhub.io/
• Regular Expression String Builder – http://www.regexr.com/
• SQL Query Stress Load Test Tool – http://www.sqlstress.com/
• SQL Hammer DB Load Test Tool – http://www.hammerdb.com/
• Online SQL Statistics Parser – http://statisticsparser.com/index.html
• Data Transfer Time Calculator – http://www.calctool.org/CALC/prof/computing/transfer_time
• Data Size/Volume/Speed/Rate Conversion – http://www.endmemo.com/convert/data%20transfer.php
• CIDR Range Conversion – https://ipaddressguide.com/cidr
• Subnet Range Calculator – https://www.subnet-calculator.com/subnet.php

ONLINE DATA SETS AND SERVICES LINKS…

• Melbourne City – https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/
• New York City – https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/
• Victorian State Government – https://www.data.vic.gov.au/
• Australian National Government – https://data.gov.au/
• US National Government – https://catalog.data.gov/dataset
• SQL Server Central Data Sets – http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Data+Sets/138278/
• 1 Million Song Dataset (280GB) – https://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/
• Slone Digital Sky Survey – http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr12/en/home.aspx

SQL SERVER INFORMATIONAL LINKS…

• SQL Builds & Releases – http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.in/
• SQL Maximum Capacity – https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143432.aspx
• SQL Edition Comparison – https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/cc645993.aspx

Blog / News-feed / RSS LINKS…

• SQL Server Central Stairways (SQL) – http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway/
• Microsoft CAT Blog (Data) – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlcat/
• Microsoft Azure Blog (Cloud) – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/
• Microsoft Azure IoT Blog (IoT) – http://blogs.microsoft.com/iot/
• Microsoft Azure ML Blog (ML) – http://blogs.technet.com/b/machinelearning/
• Microsoft Azure Service Updates (General) – http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/

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