What is HDInsight?
There are two flavors of HDInsight: Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows (recently quietly killed but...
2014-02-25
2,071 reads
James Serra's Blog
Annoying Recruiters
In a follow-up to my blog post Low-rate recruiters – The bane of my existence, Michael Bramante (website) wrote me a...
2014-02-20
1,291 reads
PolyBase explained
PolyBase is a new technology that integrates Microsoft’s MPP product, SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), with Hadoop. It is designed to...
2014-02-25 (first published: 2014-02-18)
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Why I just became a Microsoft Employee
I have been an independent consultant (IC) for quite a while now. In an amazing number of coincidences, or just plain...
2014-02-11
1,497 reads
Power BI for Office 365 now available!
Microsoft has announced today the general availability of Power BI for Office 365!
Microsoft describes it as: Power BI for Office 365 is...
2014-02-10
795 reads
24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition videos online
On February 5, 2014 business intelligence experts took to the virtual stage for the 24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition to...
2014-02-06
731 reads
Forcing a contractor to go W2
I have had a few questions like this: “I was wondering if there is a reason the vendor/broker/head hunter forces...
2014-02-04
773 reads
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) – January 2014 update
The SSDT January 2014 release has been updated to support both SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance Update 1...
2014-01-28
1,467 reads
Power BI for Office 365 pricing announced
Pricing for Power BI for Office 365 has been announced (see pricing).
It’s all very confusing to me but Melissa Coates does a...
2014-01-21
761 reads
PASS Business Analytics Conference discount code
I have previously blogged that I am presenting at the PASS Business Analytics Conference. If you are looking to learn more about...
2014-01-16
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Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
Forums
What is the best index strategy for a table that gets truncated?
Hi everyone My SSIS package does a bulk insert of csv files into a...
Blob Storage automated downloads
Dipping my toes into the waters of Azure and of course before I get...
Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers