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
T-SQL Tuesday #201 Round-Up: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?
By ReviewMyDB
The T-SQL Tuesday #201 round-up: nine bloggers on whether temp tables are a friend...
Monday Monitor Tips: Configuring Access to the MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, including the Redgate...
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
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Kerberos Authentication for Aurora PostgreSQL: Mapping AD Groups to Database Roles
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RegEx Functions I
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RegEx Functions I
Which of these RegEx functions need compatibility level 170 in SQL Server 2025?
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