Tag: Microsoft
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The Joy of Tech on One Microsoft
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Microsoft’s Hadoop play is shaping up, and it includes Excel
Microsoft’s Hadoop play is shaping up, and it includes Excel. Curious to see how the marriage of Excel and Hadoop is going to work out.
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Whitepaper on NoSQL and the Windows Azure Platform
Good 28 page whitepaper on NoSQL for SQL Server developers, first familiarizing the reader with NoSQL, then showing what NoSQL options there are in the Microsoft and Azure stack. Also a fair bit of positioning and what are appropriate use cases for NoSQL.
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Microsoft Graph DB Trinity
Microsoft published information about it’s research project Trinity, a hypergraph DB.
Trinity is a graph database and computation platform over distributed memory cloud. As a database, it provides features such as highly concurrent query processing, transaction, consistency control.… Continued
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2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms
Gartner released it’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, and Oracle apparently is sponsoring it for the public.
We have to obvious suspects in the leaders quadrant: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP, as well as a few smaller folks.… Continued
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Looking backwards over a decade of Microsof BI
Andrew Fryer is Looking backwards over a decade of Microsof BI. And while a lot has changed on the technology stack, he feels that the requirements for BI professionals is still the same. I guess it’ll be a while until my dream of a real AI being able to understand what we want without us telling it in detail will come true…
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Negative on Microsoft PDW?
Merv Adrian, who just announced he’s going to Gartner, is quite negative on MS’ SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse in Microsoft Leaps Late, Lags with SQL Server PDW. Seems that Microsoft, besides being two years late to the party, also violated quite a few unwritten analyst treatment rules around the launch of PDW at SQL PASS by not having a good message around PDW, no analyst briefing day, no additional material on its website.… Continued
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Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant
Just a quick pointer to the Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) Team’s Blog. May come in handy when looking at moving over to SQL Server. Check How To Migrate Oracle’s Sample HR Schema to SQL Server for a run-through with screenshots based on Oracle’s sample schema.
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SQL Server Redundancy
Andrew Fryer wrote a reference post about SQL Server Redundancy earlier this month about the pros and cons of clustering and mirroring, so it’s about time I mention it here! His motivation was an internal request at Microsoft:
If there are internal Microsoft staff who don’t know when to use what, then I imagine there must still be confusion in the real world about these two approaches.… Continued