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I hear you ask: “why are you writing about columnar databases?”. To answer that, I have spent some time researching about PowerPivot and Tabular Model these days which is powered by what Microsoft calls xVelocity (previously called Vertipaq) en...
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With all the news about “Big Data”, I had a question:
Where does Big Data come from?
So I researched and here are the Big Data “Sources” that I found:
1. Enterprise data (emails, word documents, pdf’s, etc)
2. Transactions
3. ...
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I passed couple of SQL Server 2012 business intelligence beta exams! The exams are:
71-463: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012
71-466: Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Filed under: beyondrelati...
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I was reading this paper on MAD Skills when I read this quote and loved it – so sharing this with you all!
If you are looking for a career where your services will be in high demand, you should find something where you provide a scarce, complementary...
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Visualizing stuff is powerful – if you have visualized something then you can remember it for a longer period of time. So in this post, we will visualize what the Merge Transformation in SQL Server Integration services (SSIS) Does:
Note:
1) Do not...
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Recently I completed a cloud computing course taught at University of Washington and so now I am a certified Cloud guy but more importantly It was great learning experience!
More about the certificate:
The course had three courses which covered following t...
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My journal article titled “Building Ideal PowerPivot Model for Power View reports” got published in SolidQ Journal. In this article, I talk about reporting properties in PowerPivot Model that you can set which will enhance the Power View report...
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Technical forums are places where you can sense that there’s a hope for humanity! No kidding. If you think about it, it’s a place where humans help each other out without expecting anything in return (in almost all cases), what I just said is a...
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I have written about how to disable password expiration for Windows Server 2008 R2 if it is NOT a domain controller. You can Find that post here: http://parasdoshi.com/2012/04/19/how-to-disable-the-password-expiration-policy-in-windows-server-2008-r2-demo-...
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After reading First Impression: Google’s BigData offering called BigQuery , a reader (Shadab Shah) had few questions about it and in this blog-post, I am going to address those questions:
Q1. Which Tool do I use to Query data in BigQuery?
A1: They have a B...
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