What does a data science team look like?
Until a couple of years ago, people barely knew the term 'data science' which has now evolved into an extremely popular career field. The...
Why Neo4j is the most popular graph database
Neo4j is an open source, distributed data store used to model graph problems. It departs from the traditional nomenclature of database technologies, in which...
Polyglot persistence: what is it and why does it matter?
Polyglot persistence is a way of storing data. It's an approach that acknowledges that often there is no one size fits all solution to...
2018 is the year of graph databases. Here’s why.
With the explosion of data, businesses are looking to innovate as they connect their operations to a whole host of different technologies. The need...
The road to Cassandra 4.0 – What does the future have in store?
In May 2019, DataStax hosted the Accelerate conference for Apache Cassandra™ inviting community members, DataStax customers, and other users to come together, discuss the...
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
The Extended Events (XEvents) feature in SQL Server is a really powerful tool and it is one of my favorites. The tool is so...
Why Oracle is losing the Database Race
When you think of databases, the first thing that comes to mind is Oracle or IBM. Oracle has been ruling the database world for...
Logging the history of my past SQL Saturday presentations from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
(2020-Dec-31) PASS (formerly known as the Professional Association for SQL Server) is the global community for data professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. On...
Creating an HTML URL from a PowerShell String–#SQLNewBlogger from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.
I wrote about getting...
Storage savings with Table Compression from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
In one of my recent assignments, my client asked me for a solution, to reduce the disk space requirement, of the staging database of...