. 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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Design’
A funky way to do Hive and Hadoop … on Azure
Posted in BigData, tagged Azure, cool design, Design, Hadoop, hive on January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The potential of Big Data
Posted in BigData, tagged Design, Thoughts on June 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
To better understand the excitement around Big Data, there is an informative report by McKinsey Global Institute – Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity. I encourage you to read this report and there are some key call outs that showcase the potential of Big Data. Big Data call outs! It’s [...]
Netflix rocks–from great entertainment to showcasing how to develop for the Cloud
Posted in BigData, Cloud, tagged Design on May 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
. . A partial screenshot of my Netflix Top 10 selections – which of course includes Doctor Who and Stargate Universe. . . . . As a subscriber, I’m definitely a fan of Netflix. I’m watching Netflix on my PC, Windows Media Center PC, XBox 360, iPad, iPhone, and Windows Phone 7 – its just [...]
At TechReady and want a chance to get a PowerPivot Technical Diagram AND win a PowerPivot book?
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Book, Design on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Are you coming to TechReady and interested in getting yourself a PowerPivot Technical Diagram: PowerPivot Client/Server Architecture? Well, make sure to come to Dave Wickert and my session for a chance to get a printed copy of this awesome diagram!: BIN403: PowerPivot for SharePoint Power Hour…so powerful its 75min 7/30 10:30-11:45am, Sheraton Metro B You’ll [...]
Win a signed PowerPivot Architecture Technical Diagram at TechEd NA 2010
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Design on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There are many reasons to go to TechEd North America 2010 in New Orleans this year. After all, it is THE event for developers and IT Professionals. And if you want to know more about PowerPivot, here’s yet another reason why you need to go. There will be a raffle to win a signed copy [...]
Hierarchies, Oh Hierarchies…where are thou? (in PowerPivot)
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Design on May 12, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I had a great question from a customer concerning something weird happening with PowerPivot relationships. In this example, we have two tables such as city and state. State Mapping Table City-State Mapping Table With the City-State mapping table, it is apparent that the cities of Boston, Quincy, Norwood belong to MA while Seattle and Redmond [...]
Ramblings about missing time … and #PowerPivot sneak peek!
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Book, Configuration, Connectivity, Design, Excel Services, FAQ, Internals, SharePoint, Troubleshooting on April 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Wow, I just checked and its been more than a month since I did my last blog post! So for starters, apologies for the lack of cool PowerPivot stuff on this blog. But it’s not like I haven’t been tweeting about PowerPivot…thank goodness I can easily retweet or type 140 characters! (follow me @dennylee) But [...]
Why you may want to use RBS for your #PowerPivot for #SharePoint Farm
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Design, RBS on February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
By Denny Lee, Ed Campbell Introducing RBS So what is RBS and why would I want to use it in order to help my PowerPivot for SharePoint farm? Well, RBS in this particular case is Remote Blob Store which was introduced as part of one of the SQL Server 2008 Feature Packs. As of this [...]
Accelerating Microsoft adCenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
Posted in Analysis Services, tagged Design, Partition, Performance on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How Microsoft adCenter takes advantage of groundbreaking performance and scalability enhancements and innovative design tools available with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services For more information, please refer to the whitepaper Accelerating Microsoft adCenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services. Executive Summary As an Internet platform for online advertising campaigns on Microsoft® Bing™, [...]
Designing and Tuning for Performance your SSIS packages in the Enterprise (SQL Video Series)
Posted in Integration Services, tagged Design, Performance, Tuning on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For all of those whom are interested in SSIS performance, we have posted a new SQL video series about how to design and tune your SSIS packages for performance. Measuring and Understanding the Performance of Your SSIS Packages in the Enterprise (SQL Server Video) Link | Watch this video Author: Denny Lee, Microsoft Corporation This [...]

