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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James Serra's Blog
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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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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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers