Hortonworks also offer a Sandbox, which is a free VM-based download that allows you to play about with the Hadoop ecosystem and learn the basics. I'd thoroughly recommend downloading...

Great, thanks Ed, will give it a shot.

Thanks Ed.

I've been intrigued by the Redgate test data generation (whether I can get budget for it is another thing :-P) but I'm curious as to how configurable it is?...

The part I always struggle with when trying to implement local developer instances of databases, and have everything integrated via version control/CI is the data. Versioning database structure and...

Great guide for anyone looking to get started with file processing in SSIS! You can actually simplify it even more if you like, by using a File System Task,...