As you’ve probably heard the news, Microsoft rebranded their Big Data offerings as HDInsight that currently encompasses two key services: Windows Azure HDInsight Service (formerly known as Hadoop-based Services on […]
Atlanta BI Group is meeting tonight. The Topic is Hadoop and Big Data by Ketan Dave and our sponsor is Enterprise Software Solutions. With wide acceptance of open source technologies […]
As I mentioned before, Microsoft released SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 and the bits are now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. I am sure you are eager to try the […]
Microsoft has started shipping the cool Surface RT tablets this week with Surface Pro to follow in January. Naturally, a BI person would attempt BI in Excel only to find […]
I installed Windows 8 shortly it was released and I’ve been running it for almost two months now. I’m still in a learning mode to teach old dog new tricks. […]
I have to admit this came as a surprise to me as I expected them to go live next year. Microsoft just announced that Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 went […]
I started a newsletter and I plan to update it on a quarterly basis. The topic of the first issue is Big Data. If you like the newsletter, you’re welcome […]
I spoke with a customer today that has implemented Salesforce.com. For those who are not familiar with Salesforce, it’s a popular cloud-based, customer relationship management (CRM) product. As it usually […]
Just got the news that my MVP (SQL Server) award got extended for another year! This is my eight renewal.
We ran into a situation where a wide MDX query requesting many regular and semi-additive measures side by side can degrade the Analysis Services server performance. As I explained in […]
