How Big Data Changed Finance at Microsoft
Finance leaders today are faced with an interesting challenge. How can they consume and analyze the millions of rows of...
2014-02-04
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Eight Essential Questions for Every Corporate Innovator
Reflect before you leap into action.
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2014-02-03
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads: The Essentials
If you read nothing else, read these 10 articles from HBR’s most influential authors: 1) “Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive...
2014-02-03
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Analyzing your Microsoft Exchange Account Data with Power Query
One of the interesting additions to the Power Query Preview December update is the ability to import data from Microsoft...
2014-02-02
488 reads
Hortonworks Makes HDP 2.0 for Windows Server Generally Available
Today, Hortonworks announced the general availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.0 for Windows. This is the next release...
2014-02-02
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Some Great Big Data Sources
What kinds of data are exciting to you? Census and government data? Zombie Data? Marvel Comics? Time and time again...
2014-02-01
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Which C-level executive will be the big data champion? | ITworld
In your environment, who do you see being the Big Data champion? it probably depends on the goals of what...
2013-11-20
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Adam answers your questions on YouTube
Folks,
There are many outlet s to get information on this year’s SQL PASS board of directors candidates. Including :
SQLPASS Election...
2011-12-14
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Cool Windows 8 Blog
For those of you interested in cool new technology, you should definitely check out ?Building Windows 8? which is a...
2011-11-11
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SQL People PASS Board interview is online–Please Comment!
Hey folks,
Welcome back to the PASS election process. The process moves forward with all of us candidates awaiting our ranking...
2011-11-10
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Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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