Microsoft Products vs Hadoop/OSS Products
Microsoft’s end goal is for Azure to become the best cloud platform for customers to run their data workloads. This...
2017-01-18
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James Serra's Blog
Create quick queries quickly with SSAS in Azure
In a perfect world a data warehouse would always return all queries very quickly, no matter what the size or...
2017-01-04
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Data gateway confusion
Microsoft has created data gateways as a way that cloud products such as Power BI and Azure Machine Learning can...
2016-12-21
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What is HTAP?
I have been seeing the term “HTAP” mentioned a lot recently, and I thought I would briefly explain the term....
2016-12-14
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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
For a long time clients would ask me how to determine the cost savings by migrating their applications and databases...
2016-12-06
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Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor is a really cool personalized recommendation engine that provides you with proactive best practices guidance on High Availability,...
2016-12-01
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Analytics Platform System 2016 Release
Microsoft has a new release for the Analytics Platform System (APS). This appliance update is called APS 2016 and has...
2016-11-29
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PASS Summit Announcements: PolyBase enhancements
Microsoft usually has some interesting announcements at the PASS Summit, and this year was no exception. I’m writing a set...
2016-11-22
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Microsoft Connect(); announcements
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 16-18, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the...
2016-11-17
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PASS Summit Announcements: Microsoft Professional Program for Big Data
Microsoft usually has some interesting announcements at the PASS Summit, and this year was no exception. I’m writing a set...
2016-11-15
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Helps with Commit Messages
By Steve Jones
At Redgate, we’re experimenting with how AI can help developers and DBAs become better...
Startup scripts in SQL Server containers
I was messing around performing investigative work on a pod running SQL Server 2025...
Using SQL Compare with Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate recently released SQL Compare v16, which included a new feature to work with...
Forums
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Fuzzy String Search II
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Azure-SSIS, Self-Hosted Integration Runtime, & Data Gateway?
Looking to confirm my understanding of these three products and how they can be...
Question of the Day
What is Page Density
In SQL Server, there is a concept of page density. This is determined by how much data is stored on each page. What is a page density of 90%?
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