Use cases of various products for a big data cloud solution
There are a tremendous amount of Microsoft products that are cloud-based for building big data solutions. It’s great that there...
2017-10-11
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James Serra's Blog
What’s new in SQL Server 2017 presentation
I just uploaded a new presentation called “What’s new in SQL Server 2017”. It covers all the new features in...
2017-10-06
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements
Many product announcements were made this week at Microsoft Ignite, and I wanted to give a quick overview of all...
2017-09-28
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Distributed Writes
In SQL Server, scaling out reads (i.e. using Active secondary replicas via AlwaysOn Availability Groups) is a lot easier than scaling out...
2017-09-21
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Azure Archive Blob Storage
Last week Microsoft released a public preview of a new service called Azure Archive Blob Storage, offering customers a lower-cost...
2017-08-31
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Data Virtualization vs Data Warehouse
Data virtualization goes by a lot of different names: logical data warehouse, data federation, virtual database, and decentralized data warehouse....
2017-08-24
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Microsoft Big Data Certification Exams
I previously blogged about Microsoft certification changes, and since then there have been some new Microsoft Big Data certifications exams released:
Already...
2017-08-08
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Azure Analysis Services web designer
Microsoft has released a preview of the Azure Analysis Services web designer. This is a browser-based experience that will allow...
2017-08-02
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Azure SQL Data Sync 2.0
Azure SQL Data Sync has been ignored for quite some time, but has finally gotten an update (it’s in public...
2017-07-20
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4TB disk sizes for Azure IaaS VMs available
Microsoft has introduced two new disk sizes for Azure IaaS VMs in P40 (2TB) and P50 (4TB) for both managed...
2017-07-07
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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