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Archives: August 2017
Azure Archive Blob Storage
Last week Microsoft released a public preview of a new service called Azure Archive Blob Storage, offering customers a lower-cost cloud storage solution for rarely accessed data. This allows for storage tiering, where organizations can place their critical data on expensive, high-performance storage and then move it down the line… Read more
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Posted in James Serra's Blog on 31 August 2017
Data Virtualization vs Data Warehouse
Data virtualization goes by a lot of different names: logical data warehouse, data federation, virtual database, and decentralized data warehouse. Data virtualization allows you to integrate data from various sources, keeping the data in-place, so that you can generate reports and dashboards to create business value from the data. It… Read more
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Posted in James Serra's Blog on 24 August 2017
Microsoft Big Data Certification Exams
I previously blogged about Microsoft certification changes, and since then there have been some new Microsoft Big Data certifications exams released:
Already live:
70-773: Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R
70-774: Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning
70-775: Perform Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure HDInsight
Now in… Read more
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Posted in James Serra's Blog on 8 August 2017
Azure Analysis Services web designer
Microsoft has released a preview of the Azure Analysis Services web designer. This is a browser-based experience that will allow developers to start creating and managing Azure Analysis Services (AAS) semantic models quickly and easily. SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) will still be the… Read more
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Posted in James Serra's Blog on 2 August 2017