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.   As there are over 190 technical sessions with three days of deep dive content – this is the premier conference for SQL Server professionals! There are many interesting sessions – you can review the session schedule at: http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2012/Sessions.aspx. During SQLPASS Summit 2012, Dave Mariani (VP Engineering, Klout, @dmariani) and I will be presenting our session How Klout Changed the Landscape of Social Media with Hadoop and BI [BIA-306-M].  The session…

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 changed the landscape of social media. And if you want more information on how they did it?  Check out Dave Mariani (@dmariani) – VP Engineering at Klout – and my presentation during Hadoop Summit 2012: How Klout is changing the landscape of social media with Hadoop and BI from Denny Lee To know more about how Analysis Services to Hive works (the BI portion noted in the above slides), please…