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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James Serra's Blog
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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What is Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics?
Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) is a fully managed cloud service for real-time processing of streaming data. ASA makes it easy...
2015-06-03
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How an MPP appliance solution can improve your future
Massive parallel processing (MPP) is the future for data warehousing.
So what is MPP? SQL Server is a Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) solution, which...
2015-05-27
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SQL Server 2016 public preview arriving this summer
SQL Server 2016 was recently announced. Top new features include:
Always Encrypted protects data at rest and in motion. With Always...
2015-05-20
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Azure Data Lake
At the recent Microsoft Build Developer Conference, Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie announced the Azure Data Lake. It is a...
2015-05-13
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Analytics Platform System (APS) is Microsoft’s massively parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse technology. This has only been available as an on-prem...
2015-05-06
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TechEd is now Microsoft Ignite
In case you were wondering what happened to the TechEd conferences, Microsoft is now bringing together the best of previously...
2015-05-04
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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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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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Blogs
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Plan
By Brian Kelley
My most recent bout with imposter syndrome was with ISACA’s Digital Trust Ecosystem Framework...
Advice I Like: Celebrate Success
By Steve Jones
“On the way to a grand goal, celebrate the smallest victories as if each...
Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
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Increase Deadlock Detection
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