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SQL Server Kilimanjaro and Project Madison
Wikipedia says "Kilimanjaro with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is an inactive stratovolcano in north-eastern Tanzania rising 4,600 m (15,100 ft) from its base, and is additionally...
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Application and Multi-Server Management Private CTP
For those of you who did not get the chance to attend PASS, there was a great announcement around "Application & Multi-Server Management". This will take the management and deployment of your...
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SQL Server Kilimanjaro becomes SQL Server 2008 R2
Today at Tech Ed North America 2009 we have officially announced the new name for SQL Server code-named Kilimanjaro.The official name will be: SQL Server 2008 R2!More information can be found @...
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Extending your Lync monitoring data using PowerPivot and Power View
Cross posting from Ilse’s Blog. During the last Techdays here in Belgium, I have had the privilege of being able to present a session on Lync. I had chosen as a topic for that session “Deploying Lync:...
View ArticlePowerPivot on Lync – small update
Just a small heads up that I changed the Lync PowerPivot file to make it scale better. In order to do so I have removed several unique columns from the import and moved some calculations to the query...
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Did my dad influence me?
I always love it when I can combine things I really love and in this case I was thinking about music and BI. When Data Explorer was first released on Azure Labs I played around with it a couple of...
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Using Spark on Azure – Part 1
The world of data is one that is evolving quite rapidly, over the last years many new technologies have seen the light like Hadoop, Hive, Pig and many many more. One project that has gotten quite some...
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Using Spark on Azure – Part 2 – Enter Power BI
As you have seen in Part 1 it is very easy to create a powerful Spark cluster and get some great data exploration capabilities right in the Zeppelin notebooks. But at one point you may want to...
View ArticleMicrosoft continues push in Open Source, Bots, AI & Deep Learning
At Microsoft we have these fantastic moments where we deliver so much innovation at the same time that it becomes difficult to capture all the great things we are doing. So here is just a small sample...
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Cloud, Data and AI Announcements @ Ignite 2017
As always around this time of the year we hold our annual conferences Ignite and Envision. This is typically the time to pay close attention as new announcements are plenty. Let's walk through some...
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Modernizing “Did my dad influence me?”– Part 1
In 2013 I decided to investigate how much influence my dad had on my musical choice, you can read about it here. At that point I was doing a lot of Power BI work so I decided to build it all in Power...
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Modernizing “Did my dad influence me?” – Part 2
In Part 1 we saw how we can capture the LastFM data from the API. This of course just gives me some raw data on an Azure Storage Account. Having data stored on a storage account gives us a wide range...
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Monitoring usage of utilities in my home
As a technology and data lover I felt it was a bit strange that keeping up-to-date with the usage of electricity, gas and water consumption in my house was an after the facts exercise. There certainly...
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