Microsoft Build event announcements
Another Microsoft event and another bunch of exciting announcements. At the Microsoft Build event this week, the major announcements in...
2017-05-12
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James Serra's Blog
Power BI Premium, Report Server, Apps and API
Announced today are some really cool new Power BI features:
Power BI Premium
Previously available were two tiers, Power BI Free and...
2017-05-03
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Microsoft Data Amp event announcements
Yesterday was the Microsoft Data Amp event where a bunch of very exciting announcements were made:
SQL Server vNext CTP 2.0...
2017-04-20
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Using Azure for free
There are a number of options for using Azure for free. This is very useful for those of you who...
2017-04-11
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Artificial Intelligence defined
The new buzzword in the industry is “Artificial Intelligence” (AI). But exactly what is AI and how does it compare...
2017-04-06
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Microsoft database migration tools
There are various Microsoft tools that you can use to help you migrate your database (updated 8/9/17):
Data Migration Assistant (DMA)...
2017-03-29
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U-SQL Defined
Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA) is a distributed analytics service built on Apache YARN that allows developers to be productive immediately...
2017-03-23
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PolyBase use cases clarified
I previously talked about PolyBase and its enhancements (see PASS Summit Announcements: PolyBase enhancements). There is some confusion on PolyBase use...
2017-03-15
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SQL DB now supports 4TB max database size
Azure SQL Database (SQL DB) has increased its max database size from 1TB to 4TB at no additional cost.
Customers using...
2017-03-10
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Power BI and Excel options for Hadoop
Below I have attempted to list the various options for reporting off of Hadoop (HDInsight, HDP, Cloudera) using Power BI...
2017-03-09
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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