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Cindy Gross: SQL Server + Big Data
Big Data Twitter Demo
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Real-time. Social Sentiment Analysis. Twitter. Cloud. Insights. We have your Big Data buzzwords here! Everyone seems to want to incorporate social sentiment into their business analysis. Well we have the demo for you! Use it for a quick demonstration...
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Access Azure Blob Stores from HDInsight
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1 month ago
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Small Bites of Big Data One of the great enhancements in Microsoft's HDInsight distribution of Hadoop is the ability to store and access Hadoop data on an Azure Blob Store. We do this via the HDFS API extension called Azure Storage Vault (ASV). This allows...
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Self-Service BI Works!
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2 months ago
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When I talk to people about adding self-service BI to their company's environment I generally get a list of reasons why it won't work. Some things I commonly hear: I can't get anyone in IT or on the business side to even try it. The business...
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HDInsight: Jiving about Hadoop and Hive with CAT
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2 months ago
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Tomorrow I will be talking about Hive as part of Pragmatic Work's Women in Technology (WIT) month of webcasts. I am proud to be part of this lineup with all these stellar WITs! I encourage my fellow WITs to get more involved in your data community and...
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PASS BAC PREVIEW SERIES: SQL Professionals and the World of Self-service BI and Big Data
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4 months ago
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Are you excited about the upcoming PASS Business Analytics Conference? You should be! This conference will offer a wide range of sessions about Microsoft's End to End Business Intelligence (including Self-Service BI), Analytics, Big Data, Architecture...
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HDInsight: Hive Internal and External Tables Intro
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4 months ago
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Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM HDInsight is Microsoft's distribution, in partnership with Hortonworks , of Hadoop. Hive is the component of the Hadoop ecosystem that imposes structure on Hadoop data in a way that makes it usable...
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Hurricane Sandy Mash-Up: Hive, SQL Server, PowerPivot & Power View
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4 months ago
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Small Bites of Big Data Authors : Cindy Gross Microsoft SQLCAT PM, Ed Katibah Microsoft SQLCAT PM Tech Reviewers: Bob Beauchemin Developer Skills Partner at SQLSkills, Jeannine Nelson-Takaki Microsoft Technical Writer, John Sirmon Microsoft SQLCAT...
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Big Data – All Abuzz About Hive at #SQLPASS Summit 2012
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7 months ago
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Big Data – All Abuzz About Hive Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM I hope to see you at the #SQLPASS Summit 2012 this week! There are many reasons people come to the PASS Summit – SQL friends, SQL family , networking...
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Load SQL Server BCP Data to Hive
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8 months ago
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Load SQL Server BCP Data to Hive Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM As you start learning more about Hadoop you may want to take a look at how the same data and queries work for SQL Server and for Hadoop. There are various ways...
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What’s all the Buzz about Hadoop and Hive?
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8 months ago
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What’s all the Buzz about Hadoop and Hive? Why it Matters for SQL Server Peeps Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM On September 20, 2012 we have another 24 Hours of PASS event! This PASS Summit Preview will give you...
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How to Install the PowerShell Cmdlets for Apache™ Hadoop™-based Services for Windows
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9 months ago
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How to Install the PowerShell Cmdlets for Apache™ Hadoop™-based Services for Windows Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM UPDATED JUNE 2013 - The very early version of PowerShell cmdlets I discussed below have been...
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Hadoop Hive Error: Could not connect client socket, timed_out
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10 months ago
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Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM With the Hadoop on Azure CTP, when you create a Hadoop cluster it expires after a few days to free up the resources for other CTP users. Therefore each time I do a demo or test I am likely to create a new...
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Load Data from the Azure DataMarket to Hadoop on Azure - Small Bites of Big Data
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over 1 year ago
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Load Data from the Azure DataMarket to Hadoop on Azure Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM UPDATED Jun 2013: HadoopOnAzure CTP has been replaced by HDInsight Preview which has a different interface and different functionality. Getting...
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24HOP/SQLRally - Fitting Microsoft Hadoop Into Your Enterprise BI Strategy
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over 1 year ago
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24HOP/SQLRally - Fitting Microsoft Hadoop Into Your Enterprise BI Strategy Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM The world of #bigdata and in particular #Hadoop is going mainstream. At 24HOP 2012 I talked about how a SQL Server...
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Using the Pi Estimator Sample on HadoopOnAzure CTP - Small Bites of Big Data
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over 1 year ago
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Using the Pi Estimator Sample on HadoopOnAzure CTP Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM UPDATED Jun 2013: HadoopOnAzure CTP has been replaced with HDInsight Preview. See: How to Run the HDInsight Samples http://www.windowsazure.com...
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Open Ports for HadoopOnAzure CTP - Small Bites of Big Data
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over 1 year ago
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Open Ports for HadoopOnAzure CTP Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM UPDATED Jun 2013: HadoopOnAzure CTP has been replaced by HDInsight Preview. See Troubleshooting ODBC connectivity to HDInsight http://social.msdn.microsoft.com...
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Creating a Cluster for HadoopOnAzure CTP - Small Bites of Big Data
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over 1 year ago
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Creating a Cluster for HadoopOnAzure CTP Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM UPDATED Jun 2013: HadoopOnAzure CTP has been replaced with HDInsight Preview which has a different interface: Getting Started with Windows Azure HDInsight...
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Leadership – Influencing Others
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over 1 year ago
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Leadership – Influencing Others A good leader is able to influence others, whether it’s directly or indirectly. Influence is about your ability to have an impact; it’s not about getting exactly what you want. Generally you are...
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SQL Server 2012 RC0 available
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over 2 years ago
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Release Candidate 0 (RC0) of SQL Server 2012 is available for download! That means you can start to experience a feature complete version of the next great SQL release. :-) We’re still looking at the first half of calendar year 2012 for the RTM...
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Leadership – Strengths and Weaknesses
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over 2 years ago
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Leadership – Strengths and Weaknesses As part of my attempt to grow as a leader I took the StrengthsFinder survey. I got this one from the Go Lead Idaho sessions I am attending. It’s based on a Gallup survey and is all based on self...
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SQL PASS: All the Magic Knobs – Tools
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over 2 years ago
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SQL PASS: All the Magic Knobs – Tools In my All the Magic Knobs talk at #SQLPASS 2011 I discussed some easy ways to determine if you’re using some of the performance magic for SQL Server. When you have many consolidated, non-tier 1 databases...
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Leadership – Taking Feedback
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over 2 years ago
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Leadership – Taking Feedback As you may have seen from my other blogs, I’m taking leadership courses and trying to stretch and define myself. It is hard work but I think it is going to be well worth the trouble. I’m getting great...
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Leadership – What Does It Mean?
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over 2 years ago
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Leadership – What Does It Mean? What is a leader? Are you a leader? Do you have to be a people manager to be a leader? Do you care about leadership? These are all questions I’ve faced recently. I’m attending some leadership...
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SQLPASS: Are You Smarter Than an MCM? VLF Demos
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over 2 years ago
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Are You Smarter Than an MCM? I had a great time on Wednesday co-presenting with some great SQL peeps! We dressed up, had a lot of fun, and shared a few technical tips along the way. My demo was on VLFs, an often forgotten and/or misunderstood part...
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SQL PASS: All the Magic Knobs
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over 2 years ago
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SQL PASS 2011 DBA-319-C #SQLPASS All the Magic Knobs - Low Effort, High Return Tuning Key points covered: Power Savings = High Performance Smart Virtualization Enough Hardware Control other apps, filter drivers Optimize for ad...
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