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Connecting PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure – Self Service BI to Big Data in the Cloud

Posted in BigData, Cloud, PowerPivot, SQL, tagged , , on January 21, 2012 | 12 Comments »

. “I caught a fish thiiiiis biiig” – On stage with Ted Kummert during the PASS 2011 Keynote on Big Data (thanks to Karen Lopez @datachick for the pic) . . During the PASS 2011 Keynote (back in October 2011), I had the honor to demo Hadoop on Windows / Azure.   One of the key [...]

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Hadoop on Azure: HiveQL query against Azure Blob Storage

Posted in BigData, tagged , , , on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The posting Setup Azure Blob Store for Hadoop on Azure CTP provides a quick way to upload files to your Azure Blob storage account and connect Hadoop on Azure CTP to it.  Now that you have done that, one of the first things you may want to do is to interact with the data. To [...]

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Setup Azure Blob Store for Hadoop on Azure CTP

Posted in BigData, tagged , , , on January 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »

One of the cool ways to run Hadoop on Azure is to have it connect to Azure Blob storage via your Windows Azure Storage account.  To setup your Azure storage account, please refer to http://windows.azure.com. The tasks below will allow you to setup your Hadoop on Azure CTP account to connect to an existing Azure [...]

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A funky way to do Hive and Hadoop … on Azure

Posted in BigData, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

. Funny how you can say something in your head and it sounds fine – Doctor Who (Matt Smith in Amy’s Choice) . Recently I had posted the wiki article: Hadoop on Azure Scenario: Query a web log via HiveQL. In it described how to analyze a sample web log using HiveQL on the Hadoop [...]

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An Azure Elephant Never Forgets…

Posted in BigData, Cloud, tagged , on December 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

All your HBase are belong to us Friends, coders, beta testers – lend me your data! . We have more tag lines like that all within the Hadoop on Azure portal!  Click on the image so you can check out the Hadoop on Azure video by clicking on the link – in addition to funky electronica, [...]

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Warehouse: Relational DW or Hadoop?

Posted in BigData, Data Warehousing on December 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Soldier: Damn Trekkies, always crashing the party pretending they’re time travelers. Claudia: What a nerd. – Warehouse 13 episode “Queen for a Day” I was asked the question “What’s the point of a data warehouse if I have Hadoop”?  And if you know me – I tend to answer in terms of an analogy: The [...]

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The aggressive optimism of Hadoop

Posted in BigData, tagged on November 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

  Aggressive optimism and a no enemies policy pays dividends – Eric14 aka Eric Baldeschwieler (@jeric14) during ApacheCon 2011 North America Thursday Keynote.     After all of these years doing BI, why have I jumped on the bandwagon of Hadoop and Big Data? Well, if you read some of my previous blog posts like [...]

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Revelations – rolling the hard six to SQL BI and Hadoop

Posted in BigData, SQL, tagged , on October 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »

  Sometimes, you have to roll a hard six. – Commander Adama in Battlestar Galactica “Revelations”     In May of this year, I had noted that I was At a Crossroads … from SSAS to Big Data!.  After I had written this post, many people ping me wondering if I had left the world [...]

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Reminder SQLPASS breakout–SQLCAT: Tier-1 BI in the world of Big Data

Posted in Analysis Services, BigData on October 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Okay kid, this is where it gets complicated. – Amy Pond from Doctor Who’s “The Big Bang” The SQL PASS Summit 2011 starts tomorrow and lots of craziness and technical learnings from SQL Karoke to the Birds of Feather luncheon.   Just a friendly reminder that on Thursday, October 13th, Thomas Kejser (@thomaskejser) and I – [...]

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Before Big Data mining, we need to ensure privacy–but how?

Posted in BigData, Data Warehousing, Medical Informatics, tagged on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

  First things first, but not necessarily in that order! – words of wisdom from Doctor Who         The tweet below got me thinking about the importance of privacy. Data mining demands sound privacy policies in age of ‘big data’ http://t.co/1N0gZhz #datamining #BI #bigdata   After all, in this day of age, [...]

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