Robin Lester
A blog about data
In this post we will look at how to utilize the Azure Cognitive Services APIs from R to add this...
Date: 09/21/2017
SQL Server to Azure SQL Database data movement options and considerations with changing schemas and triggered refreshes
In this post we will look at the problem where we need to move the data at irregular intervals from...
Date: 08/04/2017
Often questions arise on how to correctly schedule Azure Data Factory pipelines. In this post we...
Date: 04/29/2017
Azure Data Factory allows data to move from a multitude of sources to a multitude of destinations. A...
Date: 04/03/2017
Improving query performance with OPTION (RECOMPILE), Constant Folding and avoiding Parameter Sniffing issues
OPTION (RECOMPILE) when used in the correct manner can give a performance boost though Constant...
Date: 08/10/2016
Index fragmentation is not the only consideration when constructing an index maintenance plan. This...
Date: 08/04/2016
Currently there is no 2.4 Hortonworks sandbox available for Hyper-V. If like me you spend a lot of...
Date: 07/26/2016
While it is well documented that when applying page compression to a table only in-row data will be...
Date: 06/07/2016
There has been a certain amount of speculation on what the U in U-SQL stands for. Some have...
Date: 05/25/2016
The aim of this post is to give a very brief overview of the technologies in Azure that can comprise...
Date: 03/09/2016
A recap on what a checkpoint does Essentially a checkpoint operation writes dirty pages to disk....
Date: 03/05/2016
Azure Data Lake Analytics is a Big Data analytics service. It differs from HDInsight principally in...
Date: 01/04/2016