Ways to access data in ADLS Gen2

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With data lakes becoming popular, and Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 being used for many of them, a common question I am asked about is “How can I...

2019-09-16

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New product: Azure Data Share

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A brand new product by Microsoft called Azure Data Share was recently announced. It is in public preview. To explain the product in short, any data which resides in...

2019-08-29 (first published: 2019-08-19)

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Podcasts on Modern Data Warehouse

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I did a couple of recent podcasts that I wanted to mention: The first one was with Kirby Repko from the YouTube channel SQLTalk: Modern Data Warehouse Design with...

2019-08-23 (first published: 2019-08-08)

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Big Data Workshop

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A challenge I have with customers who want to get hands-on experience with the Azure products that are found in a modern data warehouse architecture is finding a workshop...

2019-07-30 (first published: 2019-07-10)

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Top SQL Server migration questions

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Below are the top 12 questions I am seeing from customers looking to migrate on-prem SQL Server to Azure, and the blogs that I have wrote that try to...

2019-07-29

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Top Modern Data Warehouse questions

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Below are the top 15 questions I am seeing from customers looking to build a modern data warehouse in the cloud, and the blogs that I have wrote that...

2019-07-22

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The Microsoft Power Platform

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The Microsoft Power Platform consists of three products: Power BI, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow. I find customers are confused on the use cases of these products and how they...

2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-25)

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Common Data Model

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The Common Data Model (CDM) is a shared data model that is a place to keep all common data to be shared between applications and data sources.  Another way...

2019-06-20 (first published: 2019-06-06)

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Microsoft Build event announcements

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Another Microsoft event and another bunch of exciting announcements.  At the Microsoft Build event last week, the major announcements in the data platform and AI space were: Machine Learning...

2019-05-30 (first published: 2019-05-16)

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Where should I clean my data?

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As a follow-up to my blogs What product to use to transform my data? and Should I load structured data into my data lake?, I wanted to talk about where you...

2019-04-25

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