Foodie Friday: St. Honoré Boulangerie

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While I’m hardly a food expert like FollowMeFoodieMijune ‏(@followmefoodie), I still consider myself a foodie.  And what I often whet my appetite upon are baked goods – more specifically French bakeries. I used to live in “la belle province” in the most awesome of cities – Montréal.   So I wasn’t enjoying French Bakeries – I was living it!.  Every morning, I would walk down the stairs from my condo and there would be the smell of fresh French baguettes and fresh cheese. While I’m not French, I’d like to think I know a little bit about French bakeries.  And one…

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What are thou Big Data? Asked the SQLBI Arbiter

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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 that’s my perspective, eh?!) Above the cloud: Big Data and BI from Denny Lee There are two blog posts that go with the above slides that provide the details. Concerning the concepts of Scaling Up or Scaling Out, check out Scale Up or Scale Out your Data Problems? A Space Analogy. Concerning the concepts of data movement, check out Moving data to compute or compute to data? That is the…

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A Quick HBase Primer from a SQLBI Perspective

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One of the questions I’m often asked – especially from a BI perspective – is how a BI person should look at HBase.  After all, HBase is often described quickly as an in-memory column store database – isn’t that what SSAS Tabular is?   Yet calling HBase an in-memory column store database isn’t quite right because in this case, the terms column, database, tables, and rows do not quite mean the same thing as one would think from a relational database aspect of things. Setting the Context How I usually start off is by providing a completely different context before I…

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