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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he voted against Steve Ballmer's $7.6 billion Nokia mistake (MSFT)
Published: 26/09/2017When Microsoft's then CEO Steve Ballmer proposed buying Nokia to shore up the company's foundering mobile phone division, Satya Nadella thought it would be a mistake. Four years later, he hasn't ... Read moreSource: www.businessinsider.com -
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Setting Data Types On Columns Containing Table Values In M
Published: 25/09/2017Last week I was working on a Power BI custom data connector for a customer and I came across a problem that has been bothering me for a while. The “Invoke Custom Function” button is a very powerful fe ... Read moreSource: crossjoin.co.uk -
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First Look at Azure Data Factory V2 Preview
Published: 25/09/2017This week at Ignite 2017 in Orlando, Microsoft announced Azure Data Factory V2 with new features including Control Flow, VNET support, On-Demand Spark execution and SSIS in the cloud. This is a first ... Read moreSource: sqlmag.com
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Bill Gates says even he doesn't understand the math behind quantum computing, the next big thing in tech (MSFT)
Published: 25/09/2017Microsoft is betting big on quantum computing — the cutting-edge field for building computer systems that are far more powerful than anything we have today. At the Microsoft Ignite conference to ... Read moreSource: www.businessinsider.com -
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Apple is now using Google to power Siri search — ditching Microsoft (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG, GOOGL)
Published: 25/09/2017Apple announced on Monday that it was switching several of Siri's search features to Google Search instead of using Microsoft's Bing search engine. Now, when you ask Apple's voice assistant to s ... Read moreSource: www.businessinsider.com -
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Review: SQL Server 2017 adds Python, graph processing and runs on Linux
Published: 25/09/2017Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows. At almost 30 years of age, Microsoft's flagship database has learned man ... Read moreSource: www.zdnet.com
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Hortonworks DPS reaches out to the virtual data lake
Published: 25/09/2017If you're building a data lake, chances are, it won't be contained within a single monolithic Hadoop cluster. That's the guiding assumption behind Hortonworks cloud-based Dataplane Service (DPS) being ... Read moreSource: www.zdnet.com -
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Splice Machine database travels full circle to predictive application platform
Published: 25/09/2017As Splice Machine launches its managed service in the AWS marketplace, it is seeking to go higher up the value chain from database to solution platform. In so doing, the company and its founder are tr ... Read moreSource: www.zdnet.com -
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Microsoft just unleashed three long-anticipated secret weapons in the cloud wars (MSFT, AMZN, ORCL, GOOG, GOOGL)
Published: 25/09/2017Microsoft will unveil its latest arsenal in the cloud wars on Monday as it opens Ignite, one of the company's largest customer conferences. Microsoft is using the Orlando event to officiall ... Read moreSource: www.businessinsider.com
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Chatting with John Michaloudis & Rob Collie
Published: 25/09/2017The #1 Supporter of our 2nd Edition Book Sits Down for a Virtual Interview Two years ago (holy cow!), John Michaloudis of MyExcelOnline.com was the single-largest financial backer of our “print the se ... Read moreSource: powerpivotpro.com -
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Power BI at Ignite 2017: announcing enterprise-ready capabilities for establishing data culture at scale
Published: 25/09/2017Power BI has quickly become the platform of choice for enterprises that want to establish a “data culture” to run their organizations on data-driven decisions. This week at Microsoft Ignite we will sh ... Read moreSource: powerbi.microsoft.com -
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Power BI Embedded capacity-based SKUs coming to Azure
Published: 25/09/2017Power BI Embedded is intended to simplify how ISVs and developers use Power BI capabilities, helping them quickly add stunning visuals, reports and dashboards into their apps – in the same way apps bu ... Read moreSource: powerbi.microsoft.com
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Tuning MDX Calculations That Use The Root() Function
Published: 22/09/2017Something that I have vaguely known about for years (for example from Mosha’s post here), but somehow never blogged about, is that using the Root() function in MDX calculations is not great for perfor ... Read moreSource: crossjoin.co.uk -
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is reportedly laying off 5,000 workers globally (HPE)
Published: 22/09/2017Hewlett Packard Enterprise is cutting 5,000 jobs as part of a wider effort to slash costs at the company, Bloomberg reported . The layoffs will affect about 10% of HPE's workforce, including employees ... Read moreSource: www.businessinsider.com -
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A $1.6 billion rival to Oracle and Amazon just filed to go public (ORCL)
Published: 21/09/2017MongoDB, a New York-based database startup reportedly valued at $1.6 billion, officially filed for its IPO on Thursday afternoon. In August, TechCrunch reported that MongoDB had confidentially f ... Read moreSource: www.businessinsider.com
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SAP Festival Geneva: A Deluge of Digital Business And Technical Value
Published: 21/09/2017It was the annual SAP Festival event last week in Geneva. There were separate days and agendas for HR, Supply Chain, and Finance professionals, and I presented the keynote for the Innovation Day part ... Read moreSource: timoelliott.com -
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Equifax mistakenly told consumers worried about its data breach to go to a spoof site (EFX)
Published: 20/09/2017Add another "oops" to Equifax's pile. For more than a week, company representatives have been directing consumers to a fake phishing site instead of to one maintained by the credit-reporting agency, a ... Read moreSource: www.businessinsider.com -
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Geek City: Changing How To Change Your Database Properties — ALTER DATABASE
Published: 20/09/2017(This article was originally published at https://www.dbbest.com/blog/ Long ago (in SQL Server years) many metadata changes were implemented with special one-off stored procedures. For example, we had ... Read moreSource: sqlblog.com
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The Great Football Project Rides Again! (In Power BI)
Published: 20/09/2017Oh My Goodness Yes. A Thousand Times Yes. (Scroll Down for the Interactive Versions) A Formerly Six-Figure Project Becomes “Free” While Also Becoming MUCH BETTER In a former life (circa 2006), I got ... Read moreSource: powerpivotpro.com -
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Doing a book signing at the DataCore booth at Microsoft Ignite!
Published: 20/09/2017If you are in the intersection of these two groups: Doesn't currently have a copy of my current database design book, or wants to give one to a friend who architects poor databases Will be attending t ... Read moreSource: sqlblog.com
