Achievement Unlocked. Six courses down and four to go for the Big Data Microsoft Professional Program. https://academy.microsoft.com/en-us/tracks/big-data/ Updated: 12/25/2017 – Three more down over the Christmas weekend. So only the Capstone Project is left. I definitely need more practice creating Azure Data Factory Pipelines. But I feel very solid on all…
Free ebook: SQL Server Internals – In-Memory OLTP. In this book Kalen Delaney introduces and explains how the 2016 In-Memory OLTP engine works. The Hekaton internals knowledge offered in this book will help you migrate existing tables or databases to Hekaton, and get faster performance from your SQL Server applications…
Classic Azure Portal Retired: Microsoft announced today that they will close the Azure classic portal on January 8, 2018. All functions will be available in the new portal.
Building the right infrastructure for an Enterprise BI and Reporting solution is not easy. It takes weeks or months to evaluate all that is available. Fortunately, Microsoft has introduced an Azure Technical Implementation Reference Guide to help you towards getting your Azure solution up and running.
I am very honored to once again be selected to serve the MCT Community as an MCT Regional Lead for 2018 – 2019. The MCT Regional Leads play a key part in helping Microsoft serve the global MCT Community through community leadership, mentoring support, and engagement with Microsoft. Additionally, the…
During the keynote at this weeks Connect() developer conference, Microsoft unveiled a new service that integrates the Azure platform with a globally distributed streaming analytics solution. Now available in preview, Azure Databricks is designed to help app users and developers take advantage of machine learning, graph processing and AI-based applications.
Introducing Microsoft SQL Operations Studio, which is a free, light-weight tool for modern database development and operations for SQL Server on Windows, Linux and Docker, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse on Windows, Mac or Linux machines. To find out more click here or to download it click here.
I started working on the Big Data professional program a few months ago, but became a little busy traveling, speaking, and working. But since my schedule is slowing down for the rest of the year, I decdied to refocus on completing the track. I’m also looking at the DevOps program…
Finally finished the third and final paper for my Ethical Leadership course. Which means I can get a head start on my final term, followed of course by the Capstone project. I’m going to start with Financial Management since it is the last course outside of my comfort zone. The IT…
Volunteering again today for most of the morning. I could not keep up with most of the today’s keynote as I was running around trying to answer questions. But, here is a link to Erin Stellato’s blog where she kept a running commetary. I will definitely be going back an…