Tag Archives: data analysis

We Don’t Have Perfect Information

Posted on September 1, 2018 by

I was discussing the PASS Summit with someone and they were wondering about building their schedule. Actually, they wanted to pick sessions, but see the choices in a calendar format, but the schedule wasn’t out. My suggestion was to just … Continue reading →

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Super Nerds

Posted on August 21, 2018 by

I enjoy the game of baseball, playing as a kid and then for a decade as a 40 year old adult. I gave it up a few years ago, worried about the wear and tear of sporadic play. I’m happy … Continue reading →

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Finding the Right Data

Posted on February 5, 2018 by

For a couple years, Big Data was heavily hyped, and Hadoop became incredibly popular. In fact, so popular that Microsoft build HDInsight and Polybase to allow us to take advantage of these technologies and integrate them into our own systems. … Continue reading →

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Analyzing Data in Real Time

Posted on September 21, 2016 by

A few years ago I was listening to a presentation from Microsoft where they touted a customer that had real time analytics with Analysis Services. Since my exposure had been that cubes needed to be processed, a resource intensive process, … Continue reading →

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