I know it must be difficult for Microsoft's accounting and marketing department to decide what features to include in each edition, and it's also difficult for an organization to decide...

Looking back at past jobs, I can say from experience that, sometimes procrastination is really just lack of motivation. For example, when the department's IT strategy for the coming year...

Andrew..Peterson (1/16/2015)

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Oh, and I have seen some demo's of where MS has done a great deal of work integrating Hadoop into the parallel data warehouse (old name). I would...

Hommer (1/15/2015)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/15/2015)

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Eric M Russell (1/15/2015)

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My point is that the fundamental difference between relational databases versus Big Data NoSQL databases is actually not technical or even...

FunkyDexter (1/15/2015)

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True but you might as well say "Chop a horses legs off and all you've got is pedigree chum." The whole point of...

patrickmcginnis59 10839 (1/15/2015)

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Eric M Russell (1/15/2015)

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Robert.Sterbal (1/14/2015)

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I think some of those geeks would also say that they want to supplant Microsoft licensing from their data.

Microsoft handles the needs of...

Robert.Sterbal (1/14/2015)

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I think some of those geeks would also say that they want to supplant Microsoft licensing from their data.

Microsoft handles the needs of small numbers (less than 100)...

Another thing about Hadoop is that the files contain data in raw unstructured format (perhaps not necessarily but at least typically) and the MapReduce process parses and performs complex computing...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/14/2015)

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That would be something, though I'd also like...

Hadoop is a primitive database management system in terms of indexing, query plans, and usability of it's query language(s). It's a major player only because of it's ability to scale...

In my universe, the root of most UAT or production change requests isn't coding mistakes or oversights on the part of the developer, but rather that the functional requirements don't...

x 45204 (1/14/2015)

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Thanks guys - it dont solve the issue i was having 100%, as the messages I needed to group together simply was too complex and no real pattern...

TheSQLGuru (1/12/2015)

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So you believe that adding a timestamp and non-clustered index to a table is more likely to break production than adding a trigger than inserts into an audit table?...

If you had access to the transaction logs, then you could do log shipping replication. If you had an actual login account, then you could leverage SSIS.

Having to operate...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/12/2015)

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It is similar to a database, but the scale of data in most companies (overall), exceeds what a single RDBMS can handle. I'm not sure...