A Trip Down the Rickety Stairway…

I’ve had to delay my series of self-tutorials on data mining for a few weeks following an antibiotic resistant infection...

Big Data And Hadoop Part 2

In my previous blog I have given more insight on Big Data and now we will take a closer look at Hadoop.

Hadoop

Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive...

Big Data And Hadoop Part 2

In my previous blog I have given more insight on Big Data and now we will take a closer look at...

Merry Christmas from gethynellis.com

This is a very short post on Christmas Eve to wish all my readers a very Merry Christmas!
I’m going to...

On the Eleventh Day…

Yesterday we had an introduction into setting up a virtual lab to help the DBA learn and test new technologies while improving his/her own skill set. Today we will...

On the Eleventh Day…

Yesterday we had an introduction into setting up a virtual lab to help the DBA learn and test new technologies...

On the Sixth Day…

What better way to kick off the sixth day of pre-Christmas than with six slices of foie-gras?  No animals have...

SQL Server # Moving MASTER database in cluster environment

Few months back I have wrote post about moving MASTER and MSDB database to new location in stand alone machine....

SQL Server Database File Size and Free Space

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Hey folks, and welcome to my first proper blog post. One of the things that I like to...

Twas The Week After Christmas - 2012 Edition

Season's Greetings and Merry Christmas! In the spirit of the holiday, I am rerunning my original parody on "Twas the...