A few months ago, I stumbled upon an article that mentioned a cool site called Kaggle which hosts data-related “competitions”. Through this site, data problems collide with solutions as data-experts compete against each other for prizes (cash and/or bragging rights) to see who can come up with the most effective, […]
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Over the past few months I’ve delivered a few presentations for current clients (and potential leads) covering the “Sharepoint BI Portal”. The presentation is very demo-heavy and focuses on the self-service capabilities of the Micrsoft 2012 BI stack when integrated with Sharepoint 2010 and built upon a well constructed BI […]
Read more →Over the weekend I read a paper titled Column-Stores For Wide and Sparse Data by Daniel J. Abadi. Below is a quick summary of the points made by Abadi followed by some thoughts / application for SQL Server’s ColumnStore index. Wide Tables & Column “Elimination” I’ve already discussed (in a […]
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