Adatis SQLBits Photo Booth 26. February 2018 BenJarvis SQLBits, Logic Apps, Cognitive Services (0) This year at SQLBits Adatis decided to create two technical demos to fit in with the magic theme, th... [More]
Introduction to Azure Data Catalog 21. February 2018 UstOldfield Azure, Hybrid Cloud, Introduction, Data Governance (0) With the rise of self-service business intelligence tools, like Power BI, and an increased engagemen... [More]
Introduction to Spark-Part 1: Installing Spark on Windows 20. February 2018 NigelMeakins Spark (0) This is the first post in a series on Introduction To Spark.For those wanting to learn Spark without... [More]
Azure Data Factory Custom Activity Development–Part 5: Using Cross Application Domains in ADF 20. February 2018 NigelMeakins Azure Data Factory, Custom Activities (0) This is the fifth and final post on a series on Azure Data Factory Custom Activity Development.Intro... [More]
Improving Machine Learning Models 20. February 2018 TristanRobinson Azure ML, Data Science, Modelling (0) As part of my MS Data Science Professional Program, a number of the topics recently have been based ... [More]
Introduction to Spark-Part 3:Installing Jupyter Notebook Kernels 19. February 2018 NigelMeakins Jupyter, Spark (1) This is the third post in a series on Introduction To Spark.IntroductionThere are a large number of ... [More]
SQL Operations Studio Vs (good old) SSMS 13. February 2018 PlamenaMincheva SQL Operations Studio (2) In the following post we’ll go over a “short” comparison between the most popular MS DB management t... [More]
Process an Azure Analysis Services Tabular Model from an Azure Function 13. February 2018 UstOldfield Azure, SQL, Tabular, SSAS, Functions, Automation (2) A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post detailing how to process a tabular model from a stored pro... [More]
Getting Started With Databricks on Azure 12. February 2018 HughFreestone (1) Databricks is a managed platform running Apache Spark. Spark is a fast general-purpose cluster compu... [More]
Loss Functions and Gradient Descent in Machine Learning 11. February 2018 HughFreestone Deep Learning, Machine Learning (1) In an earlier blog I explained some of the basic building blocks of Neural Networks and Deep Learnin... [More]
Introduction to Deep Learning, Neural Network Basics 8. February 2018 HughFreestone Deep Learning (2) My main focus is Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing but recently I have been involved in the... [More]
Introduction to TensorFlow 8. February 2018 HughFreestone (0) TensorFlow is an open source software library for Deep Learning that was released by Google in Novem... [More]
Analysis of Spatial Data Using Cosmos DB 7. February 2018 BenJarvis Cosmos DB, C#, Spatial (2) IntroductionRecently, while researching Cosmos DB, I came across the in-built capabilities for manag... [More]
Introduction to Spark-Part 2:Jupyter Notebooks 5. February 2018 NigelMeakins Spark (0) This is the second post in a series on Introduction To Spark.What Are They?Jupyter Notebooks provide... [More]
Process a Tabular model from a Stored Procedure 31. January 2018 UstOldfield SQL, SQL 2016, Tabular (3) The ChallengeRecently, at a client, I was challenged to create a stored procedure that would process... [More]
Extraction and Analysis of GeoSpatial data with Azure Data Lake Analytics 31. January 2018 JoseMendes Azure, Big Data, Data Lake, U-SQL, C# (0) I recently had to implement a solution to prove it was possible to integrate a shape file (.SHP) in ... [More]
Data Source Permissions and On-Premises Data Gateway: SQL Server and Analysis Services 31. January 2018 UstOldfield Power BI, data gateway, Infrastructure, Best Practice, Permissions, Security (2) In Microsoft’s documentation surrounding the On-Premises Data Gateway, the advice on permissions for... [More]
Introduction to Spark 29. January 2018 NigelMeakins Spark (1) Spark is all the rage at the moment (and has been for a while) in the Big Data and Analytics communi... [More]
Seeing the risks through the trees 29. January 2018 Dave-Stokes (47) In this blog I’m going to talk about the real-world challenge of identifying risks on projects and t... [More]
Different ways of performing file operations on Azure Data Lake 29. January 2018 EmmaStewart Azure, Azure Data Lake Store (1) Recently at a client, we needed to come up with a few different ways that we can perform File Manage... [More]