One of the great things about the clouds is that it makes existing good technology even better and in the case of the Azure stack, also much more simpler. One example that came to mind this week was Entity Framework after reading that it now works with CosmosDB, albeit still in beta and for the … More Create a RESTful Web Service for SQL Server using OData with Entity Framework
I’m my opinion, there’s no doubt Tableau is still the best and well ahead of everyone when it comes to visualization in terms of looks, functionality and ease. But that’s true only on the client side and as we know, BI is so much more than this … More PowerBI: Integration with Azure, Googles and other Web Services using JavaScripts
Despite its reputation, I’m still a massive fan of linked servers. Microsoft developed it for a reason and it’s ongoing presence on the platform since day one says it all. No one told you to pull back a gazillion rows on an inner join with a local table. So, when I saw it’s now possible … … More Linked Servers for Azure’s NoSQL Cosmos DB
For the majority outside marketing/digital, click stream analytics may be foreign or irrelevant. … More Real time click stream analysis with Googles Analytics
NoSQL is one of the new age database driving cloud computing and big data and for good reasons. … More NoSQL, Azure Style-in the clouds
