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...
2017-11-20
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James Serra's Blog
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...
2017-11-15
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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...
2017-11-15
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU6 released
Better late than never: The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), released an appliance update...
2017-11-07
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Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a new flavor of Azure SQL Database that is a game changer. It offers...
2017-10-31
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Microsoft Ignite Big Data Presentations
There were so many good presentations at Microsoft Ignite, all of which can be viewed on-demand. I wanted to list...
2017-10-17
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Use cases of various products for a big data cloud solution
There are a tremendous amount of Microsoft products that are cloud-based for building big data solutions. It’s great that there...
2017-10-11
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What’s new in SQL Server 2017 presentation
I just uploaded a new presentation called “What’s new in SQL Server 2017”. It covers all the new features in...
2017-10-06
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements
Many product announcements were made this week at Microsoft Ignite, and I wanted to give a quick overview of all...
2017-09-28
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Distributed Writes
In SQL Server, scaling out reads (i.e. using Active secondary replicas via AlwaysOn Availability Groups) is a lot easier than scaling out...
2017-09-21
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Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
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XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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