Using a data lakehouse
As I mentioned in my Data Mesh, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse presentation, the data lakehouse architecture, where you use a data lake with delta lake as a software layer...
2023-03-09
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As I mentioned in my Data Mesh, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse presentation, the data lakehouse architecture, where you use a data lake with delta lake as a software layer...
2023-03-09
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Microsoft Purview, formally called Azure Purview (see Azure Purview is generally available) has recently released a number of new cool features. I wanted to call out a few of...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-09)
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A question I get asked frequently from customers when discussing Data lake architecture is “Should I use one data lake for all my data, or multiple lakes?”. Ideally, you...
2023-02-01 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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Happy new year to everyone! As I enter my 9th year at Microsoft, I have switched roles, and am now an Industry Advisor in Federal Civilian, helping our Federal...
2023-01-20 (first published: 2023-01-12)
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Over the years I have presented a ton (see the list), and some of those presentations were recorded. I had put some of them on my YouTube channel, but...
2022-12-15
The big announcement at the PASS Data Community Summit 2022 was that SQL Server 2022 is now generally available. See the official announcement. My top 10 list of new...
2022-11-29
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I have attended and presented at a ton of conferences over the years (see the entire list at Presentations | James Serra’s Blog). If you are looking to learn...
2022-11-10
Announced at Microsoft Ignite were some new product features related to data platform and AI. Below are the ones I found most interesting: Azure Cosmos DB adds distributed PostgreSQL...
2022-10-18
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I have had a lot of conversations with customers to help them understand how to design a data lake. I touched on this in my blog Data lake details,...
2022-09-30
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I had previously blogged about Azure Synapse Analytics database templates, and wanted to follow-up with some notes and tips on that feature as I have been involved on a...
2022-09-13
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By Steve Jones
I was working with a customer and discussing how to do error handling. This...
By DataOnWheels
The 14th annual Ability Summit is a global event that I attended a few...
By Steve Jones
UPDATE: This moved to Apr 9 Join me Tuesday, Apr 9 for a webinar,...
Hello people, I am an SQL beginner and I have a problem with the...
Hello, I had an oddball question I was hoping someone could point me in...
Someone landed a PowerBI mess in my lap, and near as I can tell,...
How does the Resource database in SQL Server 2022 get backed up?
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