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Podcast: Myths of Modern Data Management
As part of the Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders by the Eckerson Group, I did a 30-minute podcast with Wayne Eckerson where I discussed myths of modern data management. Some of the myths discussed...
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Cost savings of the cloud
I often hear people say moving to the cloud does not save money, but frequently they don’t take into account the savings for indirect costs that are hard to measure (or the benefits you get that are...
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Podcast: Big Data Solutions in the Cloud
In this podcast I talk with Carlos Chacon of SQL Data Partners on big data solutions in the cloud. Here is the description of the chat: Big Data. Do you have big data? What does that even mean? In...
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 announced
Monday was announced the general availability of the Compute Optimized Gen2 tier of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. With this performance optimized tier, Microsoft is dramatically accelerating query...
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Microsoft Build event announcements
Another Microsoft event and another bunch of exciting announcements. At the Microsoft Build event this week, the major announcements in the data platform space were: Multi-master at global scale with...
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Getting value out of data quickly
There are times when you need to create a “quick and dirty” solution to build a report. This blog will show you one way of using a few Azure products to accomplish that. This should not be viewed as...
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Understanding Cosmos DB
Cosmos DB is an awesome product that is mainly used for large-scale OLTP solutions. Any web, mobile, gaming, and IoT application that needs to handle massive amounts of data, reads, and writes at a...
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU7 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU7), which is sort of like a service pack, except that it includes...
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Microsoft Connect(); announcements
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 15-17, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the data platform related announcements: Azure Databricks: In preview, this is a...
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What is Azure Databricks?
Azure Databricks (documentation and user guide) was announced at Microsoft Connect, and with this post I’ll try to explain its use case. At a high level, think of it as a tool for curating and...
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Is the traditional data warehouse dead?
There have been a number of enhancements to Hadoop recently when it comes to fast interactive querying with such products as Hive LLAP and Spark SQL which are being used over slower interactive...
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Reference architecture for enterprise reporting in Azure
As I mentioned in my recent blog Use cases of various products for a big data cloud solution, with so many products it can be difficult to know the best products to use when building a solution. When...
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Data Virtualization vs. Data Movement
I have blogged about Data Virtualization vs Data Warehouse and wanted to blog on a similar topic: Data Virtualization vs. Data Movement. Data virtualization integrates data from disparate sources,...
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Conversations with Data Warehouse Experts – Podcast
In this podcast I talk with Mike Rabinovici of Dimodelo Solutions about data being the new currency, the importance of showing customers the art of the possible, and last but not least my go to TV...
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Azure Data Architecture Guide (ADAG)
The Azure Data Architecture Guide has just been released! Check it out: http://aka.ms/ADAG Think of it as a menu or syllabus for data professionals. What service should you use, why, and when would...
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My latest presentations
I frequently present at user groups, and always try to create a brand new presentation to keep things interesting. We all know technology changes so quickly so there is no shortage of topics! There...
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It’s all about the use cases
There is no better way to see the art of the possible with the cloud than in use cases/customer stories and sample solutions/architectures. Many of these are domain-specific which resonates best with...
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Public preview of Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. I blogged about this before. This will lead to a title wave of on-prem SQL Server database migrations to the cloud....
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Is the traditional data warehouse dead? webinar
As a follow-up to my blog Is the traditional data warehouse dead?, I will be doing a webinar on that very topic tomorrow (March 27th) at 11am EST for the Agile Big Data Processing Summit that I hope...
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Webinar: Is the traditional data warehouse dead?
As a follow-up to my blog Is the traditional data warehouse dead?, I did a webinar on that very topic for the Agile Big Data Processing Summit. The deck is here and the webinar is below:
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