Redundancy Options in Azure Blob Storage
So you have data in Azure Blob Storage and are concerned about reliability. Have no fear! There are four replication options...
2015-11-10 (first published: 2015-11-05)
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James Serra's Blog
Copying data from Azure Blob Storage
In a previous blog I talked about copying on-prem data to Azure Blob Storage (Getting data into Azure Blob Storage). ...
2015-10-15
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Azure Data Lake enhancements
I first blogged about Microsoft’s new product, the Azure Data Lake, a few months back (here). There are already enhancements, as...
2015-09-29
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Getting data into Azure Blob Storage
If you have on-prem data and want to copy it to Azure Blob Storage in the cloud, what are all...
2015-09-17
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Relational databases vs Non-relational databases
I see a lot of confusion about the place and purpose of the many new database solutions (“NoSQL databases”) compared...
2015-08-27
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Hadoop and Microsoft
In my Introduction to Hadoop I talked about the basics of Hadoop. In this post, I wanted to cover some of...
2015-08-12
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU4 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU4),...
2015-08-06
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Cortana Analytics Suite
Yesterday at the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference in Orlando Microsoft announced the Cortana Analytics Suite, which is a new package...
2015-07-14
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Microsoft Azure Data Catalog
Just announced is the Microsoft Azure Data Catalog, which is an enterprise metadata catalog / portal for the self-service discovery of...
2015-07-10
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What is Polyglot Persistence?
Polyglot Persistence is a fancy term to mean that when storing data, it is best to use multiple data storage technologies,...
2015-07-01
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Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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