Jul 22, 2020 | Big Data, Business Intelligence
By: Ken Adams Introduction Delta Lake is an open source storage layer that sits on top of cloud storage technology such as Azure Data Lake Storage or Amazon S3. The technology was introduced by Databricks in 2019, and all of the code is available here....
Jun 26, 2020 | Azure, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud Technology, Microsoft Power BI
By: Phillip Sharpless Introduction to Azure Databricks Finding the right tools to manage your big data ecosystem can be a daunting task, as there seem to be a myriad of options, all advertising impressive-sounding features. One analytics platform that is...
Apr 30, 2019 | Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Tech Tips, Technical Information
By: Jeff Levy Hadoop Distributed File System Overview This step-by-step tutorial will walk you through how to install Hadoop on a Linux Virtual Machine on Windows 10. Even though you can install Hadoop directly on Windows, I am opting to install Hadoop...
Nov 27, 2018 | Big Data, Business Intelligence, Microsoft, SQL Server, Tech Tips, Technical Information
By: Jeff Levy SQL Server 2019 – Key Features At the 2018 Pass Summit conference in Seattle, I had the opportunity to attend many sessions about the new Big Data features being introduced in SQL Server 2019. One of Microsoft’s biggest announcements...
Jun 22, 2017 | Azure, Big Data, Cloud Technology
By: Jason Bacani Business Intelligence Consultant @ Key2 Consulting Trying to master Microsoft Azure can be a daunting task. I’ve spent the majority of my IT career in the SQL Server world and the database offerings alone under Azure can still be...
