T-SQL Tuesday#51 - Place Your Bets - In-Place Upgrade.

I’m not much of a
betting man, but if I had to bet that I would participate in this month’s T-SQL
Tuesday...

Should I learn PowerPivot yet?

Rob’s got a good post called What is Power Pivot’s #1 Competitor? which has some great comments, as well as...

My Experience Aboard SQL Cruise 2014

Where do I begin? First let me say, WOW what an experience!

How it All Began
When I first heard about SQL...

T-SQL Tuesday #051: Always Hedge Your Bets

  
It's time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this month's host is my former co-worker, the @SQLRNNR himself, Jason Brimhall.  Jason's...

Office 365 technology – What powers Power BI in Office 365? #0365 #powerbi

Power BI for Office 365 is a new self-service business intelligence (BI) offering enabling businesses to gain insights from their...

SQL Server – Using Tools to Analyze Query Performance

Here is the session I gave for the techies at Microsoft about in-built tools available in SQL Server to analyze...

Using PowerQuery with Email

At our last MVP summit, I sat in on a session on PowerQuery. Our presenter, who is pretty passionate about...

Enterprise-class real-time stream analytics for Big Data

Since the beginning of the information age, enterprises have relied on processing data to gain insights and make business decisions....

MapReduce On Hive Tables Using HCatalog

HCatalog makes Hive metadata available to users of other Hadoop tools like Pig, MapReduce and Hive. It provides connectors for...

8 Proven Steps to Starting a Big Data Analytics Project #bigdata #analytics

AN EIGHT-STEP APPROACH TO A BIG DATA ANALYTICS PROJECT
We’ve created a high-level list that speaks to 8 different steps to...