Reference architecture for enterprise reporting in Azure
As I mentioned in my recent blog Use cases of various products for a big data cloud solution, with so many...
2018-01-05
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James Serra's Blog
Is the traditional data warehouse dead?
There have been a number of enhancements to Hadoop recently when it comes to fast interactive querying with such products...
2017-12-22
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Is the traditional data warehouse dead?
There have been a number of enhancements to Hadoop recently when it comes to fast interactive querying with such products...
2017-12-22
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What is Azure Databricks?
Azure Databricks (documentation and user guide) was announced at Microsoft Connect, and with this post I’ll try to explain its use...
2017-11-28 (first published: 2017-11-20)
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What is Azure Databricks?
Azure Databricks (documentation and user guide) was announced at Microsoft Connect, and with this post I’ll try to explain its use...
2017-11-20
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Microsoft Connect(); announcements
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 15-17, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the data...
2017-11-15
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Microsoft Connect(); announcements
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 15-17, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the data...
2017-11-15
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU6 released
Better late than never: The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), released an appliance update...
2017-11-07
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Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a new flavor of Azure SQL Database that is a game changer. It offers...
2017-10-31
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Microsoft Ignite Big Data Presentations
There were so many good presentations at Microsoft Ignite, all of which can be viewed on-demand. I wanted to list...
2017-10-17
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers