Although ‘Big Data’ (and more specifically, the analysis of it) offers several benefits, organizations often fail to derive the correct insights – the data that could help them make better business decisions. So, in this article, I’ll reveal exactly how organizations can take full advantage of these large datasets to make those better business decisions and improve operational effectiveness.
2026-07-31
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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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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Too much data, especially for some data analysis isn't good for diversity of any product domain.
2023-04-12
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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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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
In this article we look at how to create a scale-out SQL Server PolyBase solution on AWS
2021-12-08
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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Steve talks data virtualization in the age of growing data sets and larger workloads
2020-02-27
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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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Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
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In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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