SQL Server is a great technology – I’ve been using it since 1993 when the user interface consisted of a query window with the options to save and execute and not much else. With every release there’s something new and exciting and there’s always something to learn about even the most familiar of features. However,Continue reading “Big Data for the SQL Eye”
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Hadoop Likes Big Files
One of the frequently overlooked yet essential best practices for Hadoop is to prefer fewer, bigger files over more, smaller files. How small is too small and how many is too many? How do you stitch together all those small Internet of Things files into files “big enough” for Hadoop to process efficiently? The ProblemContinue reading “Hadoop Likes Big Files”
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Azure Data Factory: Hub Not Found
You can use the new Azure portal to create or edit Azure Data Factory components. Once you are done you may automate the process of creating future Data Factory components from PowerShell. In that case you can use the JSON files you edited in the portal GUI as configuration files for the PowerShell cmdlets. ForContinue reading “Azure Data Factory: Hub Not Found”
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Create HDInsight Cluster in Azure Portal
Creating an HDInsight cluster from the Azure portal is very easy. However, sometimes you want all the choices and best practices explained as well as the “how to”. I have created a series of slides with audio recordings to walk you through the process and choices. They are available as sessions 1-8 of “Create HDInsightContinue reading “Create HDInsight Cluster in Azure Portal”
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Master Choosing the Right Project for Hadoop
Hadoop is the hot buzzword of the Big Data world, and many IT people are being told “go create a Hadoop cluster and do some magic”. It’s hard to know where to start or which projects are a good fit. The information available online is sparse, often conflicting, and usually focused on how to solveContinue reading “Master Choosing the Right Project for Hadoop”
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AzureCopy to the Rescue for an S3 to Azure Blob Copy!
This week I helped a client move files from AWS S3 to Azure Storage blobs. Sounds simple, right? Here’s the tricky part… While there are both Azure and AWS cmdlets for PowerShell, they don’t cooperate. Neither has a cmdlet that accepts credentials from the other and neither accepts arbitrary URLs from outside their own cloud.Continue reading “AzureCopy to the Rescue for an S3 to Azure Blob Copy!”
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Understanding WASB and Hadoop Storage in Azure
Yesterday we learned Why WASB Makes Hadoop on Azure So Very Cool. Now let’s dive deeper into Windows Azure storage and WASB. I’ll answer some of the common questions I get when people first try to understand how WASB is the same as and different from HDFS. What is HDFS? The Hadoop Distributed File SystemContinue reading “Understanding WASB and Hadoop Storage in Azure”
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Why WASB Makes Hadoop on Azure So Very Cool
Data. It’s all about the data. We want to make more data driven decisions. We want to keep more data so we can make better decisions. We want that data stored cheaply, easily accessible, and quickly ingested. Hadoop promises to help with all those things. However, when you deal with Hadoop on-premises you have aContinue reading “Why WASB Makes Hadoop on Azure So Very Cool”
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Taking Flight a.k.a. The Data Dragon’s Life After Microsoft
Cross-posted (with slightly worse formatting) from http://befriendingdragons.com/2014/07/23/taking-flight-a-k-a-the-data-dragons-life-after-microsoft/ Life is a journey – we can choose to fly through it with our wings spread to catch and channel the winds, or we can let the winds pummel us to the ground. I choose to take flight, enjoy the journey, and land on my feet. Then take off again. Even whenContinue reading “Taking Flight a.k.a. The Data Dragon’s Life After Microsoft”
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Azure Maximums and Resource Usage from PowerShell
Technorati Tags: Azure,PowerShell Have you ever struggled to find out how many VM cores, HDInsight cores, storage accounts, or other Azure resources your subscription is set to allow or how many you actually use? Maybe you want to use this information in your automation scripts to avoid trying to create components for which you don’tContinue reading “Azure Maximums and Resource Usage from PowerShell”
