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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Big Data
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
Top big data analytics trends hold true well into 2019
The overall importance of data and information within organizations has continued to grow. We’ve also seen the continued rise of megatrends like IoT, big data – even too much...
2019-04-16
Databricks Dashboards: Data Exploration With Salary Classification
For many companies, the initial attraction to Azure Databricks is the platform’s ability to process big data in a fast, secure, and collaborative environment. However, another highly advantageous feature is the Databricks dashboard.
2019-03-30
Generate Big Datasets with Hive in HDInsight
This post describes how to generate big datasets with Hive in HDInsight, specifically TPC-DS benchmarking datasets. There are many tools for generating sample data, and this one is particularly nice due to its familiarity and ability to generate massive...
2019-03-30
Blogs
Using SQL Alerts to Spot Suspicious Activity in SQL
SQL doesn’t really give us too many tools out of the box to allow...
How to Change the Browser Used by SSMS for AAD Auth
Did you know that you can change the browser used by SQL Server Management...
Typing with Your Tongue Part 2: Voice Access
By DataOnWheels
A few months ago, I wrote a post on how I use voice technology...
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Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 149, no matter what I try
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