9 resources not to be Skeptic about Big Data
2 years ago I posted “16 papers and original articles on Big Data” It’s now time to review and extend my original list. “Big Data” reached its Peak in...
2013-06-01
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The Future Computing Appliances and SQL Server
9 resources not to be Skeptic about Big Data
2 years ago I posted “16 papers and original articles on Big Data” It’s now time to review and...
2013-06-01
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The end of the Internet, data and the PC
The Big Data revolution will be more important than the PC or the Internet. While there were many interesting conversations last week at Strata, two new publications captured my...
2013-03-04
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The end of the Internet, data and the PC
The Big Data revolution will be more important than the PC or the Internet. While there were many...
2013-03-04
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Big Data I: 16 Papers and original articles
What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data? Let me suggest: http://bit.ly/BigData1 We face a data management problem: IDC 2010 Digital Unverse Study http://bit.ly/BigData2...
2011-05-30
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Big Data I: 16 Papers and original articles
What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data? Let me suggest:...
2011-05-30
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Getting ready for the third “Industrial Revolution”: Database 2010-2015
I searched the internet for “connect and forget”. Wonderbox.net offer is described as a “revolutionary computer server”… I think of wonderbox as a “computing appliance”, but Wikipedia limits the...
2010-10-10
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Getting ready for the third “Industrial Revolution”: Database 2010-2015
I searched the internet for “connect and forget”. Wonderbox.net offer is described as a...
2010-10-10
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Database automation and appliances
10 years ago IT professionals considered database technology “mature” and analysts were preparing to slide it into a commodity status… But on the Exabyte era, we depend on databases...
2010-09-13
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Database automation and appliances
10 years ago IT professionals considered database technology “mature” and analysts were preparing to...
2010-09-13
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The Decoded Value
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers