Languages of Big Data Apache Hadoop

Languages of Big Data
Big Data is here and rapidly growing.  If you are just starting to learn about Big Data...

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #85

It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...

Microsoft’s free virtual labs

If you have spent any time looking around my site, you will notice that I love study materials and in...

NodeXL – Accessible Network Graph Analysis, part 2

This is the second blog post in the series dedicated to the Network Graph Analysis Tool – NodeXL.

If you are interested,...

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Speaking at SQLSaturday #310 in Dublin/Ireland

(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...

SQL Code Guard. New release 2.5.5257

Today we released new version of SQL Code Guard, 2.5.5257
Main changes:
SQL Code Guard is digitally signed now to satisfy corporate...

Useful Links for learning & using in Data Quality Projects in SQL Server

Data Quality Services in SQL Server is a component that is based around the concept of knowledge-driven quality.
Here comes a...

NodeXL – Accessible Network Graph Analysis, part 1

This is the first blog post in a series on one of the most awesome free analytical tools that is...

Presentation slides for Modern Data Warehousing

Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Modern Data Warehousing” for Pragmatic Works last Thursday.  The abstract for my session is below...