Do you really like Hong Kong style Barbeque pig and duck (or poultry for that matter), live in the Emerald City, and just cannot afford to head to Hong Kong on a regular basis? Well, the best option for those living the Seattle area is Ton Kiang Barbeque Noodle House – I may get into a lot of trouble here, but this BBQ house is comparable to BBQ houses in Vancouver – even the ones off of No. 3 Road (gasp!). Before I start a proverbial debate among the Seattle Chinese community (food is easily the easiest topic to debate…
Month: December 2012
Travel Tuesday: Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum
Below are some pictures from our recent visit to the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum.
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 – at 24TB – in which the source of this cube is 2PB from a huge Hadoop cluster. For those whom had attended the PASS 2011 session Tier-1 BI in the world of Big Data, Thomas Kejser, myself, and Kenneth Lieu were honored to discuss the details surrounding this uber-cube. At that time, I had promised the case study would only be months away… Alas, it took a little while…
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 SQL Server Analysis Services Development. If you want your voice to be heard – now is a great time to do it! Follow through with the BI Professional Survey for more information and link to the survey. The voice of the SQL community has a huge impact on how and what the SQL BI team develops. After all, it was due to strong SQL BI community feedback that helped push…
Getting your Pig to eat ASV blobs in Windows Azure HDInsight
Recently I was asked how could I get my Pig scripts to access files stored in Azure Blob Storage through the command line prompt. While it is possible to do this from HDInsight Interactive JavaScript console, to automate scripts and use the grunt interactive shell, it is easier to run these commands from the command line. To do this, you will need to: Ensure your HDInsight Azure cluster is connected to Azure Blob Storage subscription / account Familiarize yourself with the pig / grunt interactive shell Connecting HDInsight Azure to Azure Blob Storage 1) To do this, go to the…
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