Big Data or Small Data
Today Steve talks about big data sets and whether we really need them, or even enjoy working with them.
2024-12-18
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Big Data
Revolutionizing Real-Time Data Management with SQL Server, Kafka, and Informatica
This article examines how one can structure a pipeline for processing real-time data using Kafka and Informatica.
2023-04-26
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Big Data Downsides
Too much data, especially for some data analysis isn't good for diversity of any product domain.
2023-04-12
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The Danger of Sharing Data
When a company assembles a lot of data to draw conclusions, that's great. However, when that one company sells data to a number of competitors, that can be a problem.
2023-02-22
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Data lakes take on big data
A data lake is a scalable data storage repository that can ingest large amounts of raw data and make it available on-demand. Robert Sheldon explains the benefits and challenges of data lakes.
2022-02-04
Create a SQL Server PolyBase Scale-out Group Using Amazon Web Services
In this article we look at how to create a scale-out SQL Server PolyBase solution on AWS
2021-12-08
Do You Have Big Data?
Data sizes are always growing. Stats on world data are astounding, as are the stats many of us experience in our lives. Plenty of us have moved from MB management to GBs, and I see plenty of people dealing with TB storage at home. Most of that data is likely from images and video, but […]
2020-09-09
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Data Orchestration
Steve talks data virtualization in the age of growing data sets and larger workloads
2020-02-27
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SQL Server Integrates Hadoop and Spark out-of-the box: The Why?
Why has Microsoft added new capabilities in SQL Server to connect to other types of data sources? Read on to learn more.
2021-05-14 (first published: 2019-09-09)
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Reduce costs by adding a data lake to your cloud data warehouse
When it comes to data warehouse modernization, we’re big fans of moving to the cloud. ...
2019-04-17
Blogs
Azure – HorizonDB
By Vinay Thakur
As Open Source – PostgreSQL and AI is a growing and powerful DB system,...
A New Chapter: Why I Made the Move from Dayforce to ESO
By gbargsley
A New Chapter: Why I Made the Move from Dayforce to ESO Over the...
Lean Six Sigma – Brief
By Vinay Thakur
When you have a project or system, it has to be optimized, tuned, and...
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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