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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James Serra's Blog
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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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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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Checking the Error Log III
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