Hello…..Azure Data Factory!
Overview The boundaries between on-premise and cloud-born data continue to blur with more and more organization moving to hybrid data landscapes. The blurring of these lines introduces a number of...
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Something’s Brewing with Azure Data Factory
Awhile back I put together a presentation to show off HDInsight using Mahout and most everyone’s favorite Beer. The concept was simple. A spartan website allowed users to create a website and rate...
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Something’s Brewing with Azure Data Factory Part 2
In my last post (HERE), I started hacking my way through the new Azure Data Factory service to automate my beer recommendation demo. The first post was all about setting up the necessary scaffolding...
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Something’s Brewing with Azure Data Factory – Part 3
In the first two parts of this blog series (HERE and HERE), we used Azure Data Factory to load Beer review data from an Azure SQL Database to an Azure Blob Storage account. We then processed that data...
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Introduction to Apache Storm
The Apache Storm project delivers a platform for real-time distributed (complex event) processing across extremely large volume, high velocity data sets. By providing a simple, easy-to-use abstraction,...
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Ooooh I’m Telling: Doing Swear Word Analysis with Storm on HDInsight
As promised, this is the first of three (maybe more) posts that will present an end-to-end example to showcase the distributed streaming capabilities of the Apache Storm project. This first post will...
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Building an Azure ML SSIS Task
In several previous blog posts (HERE and HERE), I’ve introduced and discussed the Azure Machine Learning service, its features, benefits and general capabilities. Since that time I have been toying...
View ArticleAutomating Update of Azure-Powershell
Just a quick post to share a useful script. The PowerShell script below will download and update the Azure-PowerShell command-lets to the latest and greatest version. It even does a slick little...
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Geospatial Queries Using Hive
During one recent engagement, I was helping my customer align ETL activities that were originally developed using SQL Server and T-SQL with the capabilities that were available using Hadoop and Hive....
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Using #PolyBase in #SQLServer2016
It’s been a few weeks since the numerous Build and Ignite announcements ushered in the latest and greatest, SQL Server 2016. After having some time to soak it up (aka I’ve been too busy to blog) we...
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