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Compile and add Hive UDF via ADD JAR in HDInsight on Azure

To compile a Hive UDF and if you have the Hadoop source code, the right way to do this is to use maven with the Hive repository so you can … Continue reading

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May 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Add Built-In Hive UDFs on HDInsight Azure

In the last few weeks, I have had a number of customers ping me about how to utilize various Hive UDFs.  The first ask was how to use some of … Continue reading

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May 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Optimizing Joins running on HDInsight Hive on Azure at GFS

.“…to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages…” – Vincent Van Gogh Image … Continue reading

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April 26, 2013 · 5 Comments

Healthcare Compliance with Big Data and BI

Reblogged from Ayad Shammout's SQL & BI Blog: Healthcare Compliance with Big Data and BI Over the past few years Denny Lee  (Technical Principal Program Manager within Microsoft’s SQL Business … Continue reading

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April 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Using Avro with HDInsight on Azure at 343 Industries

By Michael Wetzel, Tamir Melamed, Mark Vayman, Denny Lee Reviewed by Pedro Urbina Escos, Brad Sarsfield, Rui Martins Thanks to Krishnan Kaniappan, Che Chou, Jennifer Yi, and Rob Semsey As … Continue reading

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March 12, 2013 · 8 Comments

Getting Hadoop and protobufs up and running with Elephant Bird on Mac OSX Mountain Lion

. “No, not Angry Bird – Elephant Bird!” – said no one . . In a few of my customer projects, we started diving into using protocol buffers (protobufs) as … Continue reading

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March 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment

An easy way to test out Hive Dynamic Partition Insert on HDInsight Azure

One you get your HadoopOnAzure.com cluster up and running, an easy way to test out Hive Dynamic Partition Insert (the ability to load data into multiple partitions without the need … Continue reading

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November 7, 2012 · 2 Comments

HiveODBC error message “..expected data length is 334…”

One of the odd HiveODBC error messages that I recently encountered on a project is that when I am extracting data from my Hive/Hadoop cluster using the HiveODBC driver, I … Continue reading

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October 11, 2012 · 2 Comments

Padding zero-length string data with HiveODBC

One of the more esoteric error messages that you may receive from the HiveODBC driver connection is: SQL_ERROR Failed to get data for column zu When connecting to Hive using … Continue reading

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October 9, 2012 · 3 Comments

SQLPASS Summit 2012 is coming! Check out how Klout, SQLBI, and Hadoop help power Bing social search!

Wow, it’s already October which means that we’re less than a month away from the SQLPASS 2012 Summit in my fair city of Seattle, WA from November 6th – 9th.   … Continue reading

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October 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Klout powers Bing Social Search!

A pretty exciting announcement by Klout happened today – they are now powering Bing Social Search as noted in Bing has Klout! Hats off to them on how they have … Continue reading

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September 27, 2012 · 1 Comment

SQL Server Analysis Services to Hive

Over the last few months, we’ve chatted about how Hadoop and BI are better together – it’s a common theme that Dave Mariani (@dmariani) and I have spoke together about … Continue reading

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September 26, 2012 · 5 Comments

Office 2013 Power View, Bing Maps, Hive, and Hadoop on Azure … on my!

With all the excitement surrounding Office 2013 (here’s a nice Engadget Review) and energized by Andrew Brust’s tweets (@andrewbrust) and post Office 2013 brings BI, Big Data to Windows 8 … Continue reading

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July 23, 2012 · 2 Comments

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

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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