Languages of Big Data Apache Hadoop

Languages of Big Data
Big Data is here and rapidly growing.  If you are just starting to learn about Big Data...

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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #85

It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...

It’s Time to End Password Reuse

Last week Ebay announced that some accounts were compromised, including passwords with as yet unstated encryption. Those who aren’t tech...

Attaching All Databases with PowerShell–Finding My MDF Files

I wrote a PowerShell script recently to actually accomplish a task I that I needed. What’s more, this was the...

Microsoft’s free virtual labs

If you have spent any time looking around my site, you will notice that I love study materials and in...

SQL Code Guard. New release 2.5.5257

Today we released new version of SQL Code Guard, 2.5.5257
Main changes:
SQL Code Guard is digitally signed now to satisfy corporate...

How Database Mail works in SQL Server ?

Database Mail is email feature in SQL Server from SQL Server 2005 onwards. This feature used for mailing alerts, notification,...

Dealing with SQL Server LOCK resource errors.

I was recently doing some testing that required a fairly large table. I created the test table, and set it...

NodeXL – Accessible Network Graph Analysis, part 1

This is the first blog post in a series on one of the most awesome free analytical tools that is...