I wrote a blog earlier about my first experience (and error encountered) with “Stretch Database” feature. In this blog I would talk about the error – Free Trial subscriptions can provision Basic, Standard S0 through S3 databases, up to 100 eDTU Basic or Standard elastic pools and DW100 through DW400 data warehouses.
SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Power View Infrastructure Configuration and Installation: Step-by-Step and Scripts
Power View, a feature of SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition, is an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience. It provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting for business users such as data analysts, business decision makers, and information workers. Microsoft has recently released very…
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SQL SERVER – Step by Step Guide to Beginning Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 – Introduction to DQS
Data Quality Services is a very important concept of SQL Server. I have recently started to explore the same and I am really learning some good concepts. Here are two very important blog posts which one should go over before continuing this blog post about Data Quality Services.
SQL SERVER – What is Big Data – An Explanation in Simple Words
Let us start with a very interesting quote for Big Data.
Decoding the human genome originally took 10 years to process; now it can be achieved in one week – The Economist.
This blog post is written in response to the T-SQL Tuesday post of The Big Data. This is a very interesting subject. Data is growing every single day. I remember my first computer which had 1 GB of the Hard Drive. I had told my dad that I will never need any more hard drive, we are good for next 10 years. I bought much larger Harddrive over 2 years and today I have a NAS at home, which can hold 2 TB and have few file hosting in the cloud as well. Well the point is, the amount of the data any individual deals with has increased significantly.
SQLAuthority News – New Book Released – SQL Server Interview Questions And Answers
Two days ago, on birthday of my blog – I asked simple question – Guess! What is in this box? I have received lots of interesting comments on the blog about what is in it. Many of you got it absolutely incorrect and many got it close to the right…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor Datascript Modules
With the release of expressor 3.3, expressor software has added a significant new feature to the expressor Studio tool – the ability to easily extend functionality through the incorporation of reusable script files. A developer using expressor Studio may write these scripts and add them to any number of projects,…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) – Tools – Video – Download
I was recently working on learning various new stuff. I just would like to share very interesting resources here today. Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is a toolkit that dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating from any other data platform to SQL Server 2005, SQL Server…
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