Types of NoSQL databases
A NoSQL database provides a mechanism for storage and retrieval of data that is modeled in means other than the...
2015-04-15
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James Serra's Blog
What is a data lake?
A “data lake” is a storage repository, usually in Hadoop, that holds a vast amount of raw data in its...
2015-04-08
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Creating a large data warehouse in Azure
Microsoft Azure provides you two options when hosting your SQL Server-based data warehouse: Microsoft Azure SQL Database and SQL Server...
2015-03-30 (first published: 2015-03-19)
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Operational Data Store (ODS) Defined
I see a lot of confusion on what exactly is an Operational Data Store (ODS). While it can mean different...
2015-03-12 (first published: 2015-02-26)
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Presentation slides for “Building a Big Data Solution”
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Building a Big Data Solution” (Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture with Hadoop,...
2015-02-24
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Power BI Made Simple
In an effort to understand Power BI and all the products it encompasses, I have made this slide deck to...
2015-02-18
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What is Advanced Analytics?
Advanced Analytics, or Business Analytics, refers to future-oriented analysis that can be used to help drive changes and improvements in...
2015-02-11
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Microsoft product roadmap now public
Ever wonder about Microsoft’s product roadmap? With Microsoft rapidly releases products and services, they realized the need to provide better...
2015-02-12 (first published: 2015-02-04)
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Power BI Designer and Power BI Dashboard
Long has the question been asked “Which Microsoft tool do I use for dashboards?”. SSRS, Excel, PowerView, Report Builder and PerformancePoint...
2015-01-14
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Using Power BI to access on-premise data
The following blog describes how to use certain cloud-based Power BI for Office 365 products (Power View and Q&A) on...
2015-01-07
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Blogs
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
Forums
Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
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;
What are the results? See possible answers