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Moving data to compute or compute to data? That is the Big Data question

Posted in BigData, SQL, tagged , , on January 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Dorky attempts at geek Shakespere aside; as the volume, complexity, and variability of your data systems increase in … entropy …, this becomes a fundamental question in whether one scales up or scale out their data problem. Apologies for the nerdy chemistry references in advance – which starts with this picture of Dr. Arthur Grosser [...]

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Scale Up or Scale Out your Data Problems? A Space Analogy

Posted in BigData, SQL, tagged , , on January 24, 2012 | 7 Comments »

As I am writing more about Big Data, I’m been asked whether we need to have traditional relational or cube systems now that we have Big Data / NoSQL / Hadoop.  My responses are to note that these are different systems that serve different purposes even though both are used to better understand data. But [...]

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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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Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services…does it apply to SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2?

Posted in Analysis Services, tagged , on May 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I recently received a great question concerning the whitepaper Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services: Question, does this also apply for SQL Server 2008? What are you experiences with the scale out? I’m in the process of recommending using this technology to a large customer of mine and want to make sure we are actually able [...]

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