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 of what can be done and when the excitement goes...

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 you to persist data even after you spin down...

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 if you don't already do so start tweeting, blogging...

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 from BI tools that expect rows and columns with defined...

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 PM, Lara Rubbelke Microsoft Technical Architect...

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, great content in 190 sessions, the SQL clinic,...

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 to do this. For now I’ll show you something...

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 a taste of what is coming at this year’s PASS...

How to Install the PowerShell Cmdlets for Apache™ Hadoop™-based Services for Windows Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM We have a cool new addition to Microsoft’s Apache™ Hadoop™-based Services for Windows – new PowerShell cmdlets! The initial...

Load Data from the Azure DataMarket to Hadoop on Azure Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM The first step in analyzing data is acquiring that data. You may have data available from logs, databases, or other internal sources. Or you may need to export data from an external source...

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 professional fits into this big data world. ...

Using the Pi Estimator Sample on HadoopOnAzure CTP Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM Now that you have created your Hadoop on Azure cluster you can run the sample programs to become familiar with the interface. Click on the “Samples” tile under “Manage your...

Open Ports for HadoopOnAzure CTP Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM Once you have created your Hadoop on Azure cluster you will likely be moving data in and out of the system. That means you need to open the ports in Azure. By default the two ports exposed through the Metro interface...

Creating a Cluster for HadoopOnAzure CTP Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM Are you ready to dive into this “Big Data” thing you keep hearing about? A good way to get started without having to understand and install all the HDFS, MapReduce, and other pieces yourself...