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Installing Spark 0.6.1 Standalone on OSX Mountain Lion (10.8)

Spark is an in-memory open source cluster computing system allowing for fast iterative and interactive analytics.  Spark utilizes Scala – a type-safe objected oriented language with functional properties that is … Continue reading

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February 4, 2013 · 1 Comment

Big Data, BI, and Compliance in Healthcare

If you’re interested in Big Data, BI, and Compliance in Healthcare; check out Ayad Shammout (@aashammout) and my 24 Hours of PASS (Spring 2013) session Ensuring Compliance of Patient Data … Continue reading

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January 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Yahoo! 24TB SSAS Big Data Case Study + Slides

In my post from last year, I had asked the rhetorical question What’s so BIG about “Big Data”.  I had the honor of announcing the largest known Analysis Services cube … Continue reading

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December 8, 2012 · 3 Comments

SQL BI Professionals – Let your voice be heard!

As recently announced by T.K. Anand on the Analysis Services and PowerPivot, the SQL BI development team are looking for your thoughts and opinions on the tools and capabilities for … Continue reading

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December 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

SQLPASS: Hadoop and BI are better together–we’ll show you how!

This is going to be yet another exciting SQLPASS Summit!  Lots of great sessions, focus groups, and craziness – definitely one of the funner times of the job! Over the … Continue reading

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November 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Enterprise Reporting Services Jump Start Guide

While there is a lot of deserved and great interest with Power View, almost forgotten is the IT workhorse SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services for your corporate / managed reporting … Continue reading

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October 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

What are thou Big Data? Asked the SQLBI Arbiter

Over the last few days, I’ve been pinged the question: What is Big Data? Go figure, I actually have an answer of sorts – from a SQL BI perspective (since … Continue reading

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August 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

How Klout changed the landscape of social media with Hadoop and BI Slides Updated

One of the key themes that Dave Mariani (@dmarini) and I were talking about during this year’s Hadoop Summit was that: Hadoop and BI are better together as I have … Continue reading

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July 9, 2012 · 5 Comments

Hadoop Summit and all hail screen sharing!

Presenting for the first time at Hadoop Summit was a serious thrill and this was just Day 1!  Just as a refresher, Dave Mariani (@dmarini) from Klout and I got … Continue reading

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June 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

A Primer on Hadoop (from the Microsoft SQL Community perspective)

For a quick primer on Hadoop (from the perspective of the Microsoft SQL Community), as well as Microsoft Hadoop on Azure and Windows, check out the SlideShare.NET presentation below. Above … Continue reading

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March 27, 2012 · 3 Comments

BI and Big Data–the best of both worlds!

As part of the excitement of the Strata Conference this week, Microsoft has been talking about Big Data and Hadoop.  It started off with Dave Campbell’s question: Do we have … Continue reading

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March 1, 2012 · 1 Comment

“Hadoop: A movement, not just a technology”

Note, the title of this post (and for that matter, most of this post) is a direct quote from Kovas Boguta’s post: Hadoop & Startups: Where Open Source Meets Business … Continue reading

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July 22, 2011 · 2 Comments

At a Crossroads … from SSAS to BigData!

“There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief / There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief” – Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along the … Continue reading

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May 17, 2011 · 4 Comments

PowerPivot Technical Diagram: PowerPivot Security Architecture

Just in case you didn’t already know, we just uploaded the PowerPivot Security Architecture technical diagram on to sqlcat.com / MSDN.  To get access to the PDF, XPS, and/or VSD … Continue reading

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August 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services with MDX and DAX

Analysis Services Multidimensional and Tabular Reference all in one handy book!

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