Top reasons why enterprises should choose Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Guest post by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform Yesterday at Microsoft’s Ignite conference, we demoed the first sneak peek of Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
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Automated Backup & Automated Patching Best Practices
We recently released the Automated Backup and Automated Patching features. -
New Year’s Resolution? Free BI and Big Data Training
Interested in growing your BI and Big Data skills in 2015? Maybe your new year’s resolution is all about learning something new or taking your analytics knowledge to the next level? See what BI and Big Data training courses were your peers’ favorites in 2014: Faster Insights to Data with Power BI Jumpstart From Data […] -
Six Benefits to Planning for SQL Server 2005 and Windows Server 2003 End of Support Now
As the end of 2014 nears, now is the perfect time to review IT infrastructure plans for the coming year. -
Best of 2014: Top 10 Data Exposed Channel 9 Videos for Data Devs
Have you been watching Data Exposed over on Channel 9? If you’re a data developer, Data Exposed is a great place to learn more about what you can do with data: relational and non-relational, on-premises and in the cloud, big and small. -
Azure HDInsight Clusters Allows Custom Installation of Spark Using Script Action
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APS Best Practice: How to Optimize Query Performance by Minimizing Data Movement
by Rob Farley, LobsterPot Solutions The Analytics Platform System, with its MPP SQL Server engine (SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse) can deliver performance and scalability for analytics workloads that you may not have expected from SQL Server. -
How to Hadoop: 4 Resources to Learn and Try Cloud Big Data
Are you curious about how to begin working with big data using Hadoop? Perhaps you know you should be looking into big data analytics to power your business, but you’re not quite sure about the various big data technologies available to you, or you need a tutorial to get started. -
The ins and outs of Apache Storm – real-time processing for Hadoop
Yesterday at Strata + Hadoop World, Microsoft announced the preview of Apache Storm clusters on Azure HDInsight. -
Using SSDs in Azure VMs to store SQL Server TempDB and Buffer Pool Extensions
A common practice on-premise to improve the performance of SQL Server workloads is storing TempDB and/or Buffer Pool Extensions (SQL Server 2014) on SSDs. -
3 reasons to get certified at PASS Summit 2014!
PASS Summit 2014 is right around the corner! Register by September 26th 2014 to take advantage of the PASS Summit discounted pricing. -
Transitioning from SMP to MPP, the why and the how
This blog post was authored by: Sahaj Saini, PM on the Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS) team.
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