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Big Data and BI working together Date/Time: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 6:30 PM Location: The City...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 11/04/2012
High availability, manageability, performance, scalability, security and compliance – a...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 11/04/2012
They say pictures tell you a 1000 words and helps you to understand things clearly. Well certainly...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 11/02/2012
The study by ESG Labs, demonstrates performance, scalability, and low overhead of Hyper-V can...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 10/29/2012
Public previews of Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows,...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 10/24/2012
Klout (www.klout.com) measures influence across the social web by analyzing social network user...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 09/27/2012
This is an invite-only, technical boot camp for Hosting Service Providers that offers 300...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 09/17/2012
Today marks the General Availability of Windows Server 2012. Windows Server 2012 is a cornerstone of...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 09/05/2012
Self service BI is getting lot of attention, and there are lot of tools out there in the market from...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 08/22/2012
I recently attended internal training on Microsoft Big Data presented by our partner in this space...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 08/08/2012
Thank you to those for submitting some great sessions this year. It was always going to be a...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 08/08/2012
In case you missed this announcement, I am including the link s below to free ebooks from...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 08/08/2012
After setting up Redhat Linux 6.3 in Hyper V image follow the instructions outlined on TechNet -...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 08/02/2012
This document takes you through the essential technical details for planning and testing an upgrade...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 05/21/2012
The managed self-service business intelligence (BI) capabilities of SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 04/30/2012
Thank you to those who attended my SQL Saturday presentation last Saturday at Epping Boys High...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 04/23/2012
What? You still think RAC is the answer for your high end database platform requirements even with SQL Server 2012 & SQL Azure now released! Time to think again
If you really have a requirement for scaling out your database workload today then an option that is...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 04/11/2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is launching today, with evaluations available and general availability starting April 1.
Exciting news! SQL Server 2012 has released to manufacturing. You can download an evaluation of the...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 03/06/2012
HP and Microsoft engineering teams have worked together to create a reference architecture to...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 02/15/2012
With the December update to SharePoint 2010, you can now view your existing BI solutions in your...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 01/11/2012
Just in case you missed it over the holiday period, Pej from the SQL Server product team made...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 01/04/2012
To help you evaluate your SQL Server database(s) readiness to move onto our public offering – SQL...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 01/04/2012
I have recently had the opportunity to present on the topic of BigData at several forums including...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 12/27/2011
The new Upgrade Assistant for SQL Server 2012 from our partner Scalability Experts is now available...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 12/24/2011
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support & custom during 2011...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 12/22/2011
The SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC) is available now. It is the first release which is...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 11/17/2011
Experience the future. NOW. Driven by the thought “Don’t tell me, SHOW ME!”, Microsoft brings...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 11/03/2011
The product team has just put together the following Linked In discussion groups, so be sure...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 10/11/2011
Use this flowchart to better understand how Excel Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 10/03/2011
I should have added one more thing and its FREE . If this is music to your ears then lock down the...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 09/10/2011
Just finishing off the final touches to my two presentations and hope to catch you either in my...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 08/27/2011
I see this occur quite often and even I keep on repeating this mistake – when it comes to setting up...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 08/21/2011
Since the release of SQL Server Denali CTP3 I have been talking more and more to customers and...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 08/14/2011
So you have downloaded Denali CTP3 from -...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 08/12/2011
Link for downloading CTP 3 of Denali: https://www.microsoft.com/denali The long awaited wait for CTP3...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 07/12/2011
Summary: This white paper explores how the Kimball approach to architecting and building a data...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 07/12/2011
You are reading right, sqlman is talking about SharePoint . The reason for this is that by applying...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 07/11/2011
This is one of those things that you can easily get wrong from time to time, (I have ), so thought I...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 06/14/2011
A Principal Data Engineer at Microsoft (Saleem Hakani) had authored the below SQL Server Tips &...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 06/14/2011
A comprehensive (108 pages) whitepaper has recently been released that describes describes how...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 06/13/2011
Microsoft partners Extended Results have done it again. They have released another great PowerPivot...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 06/11/2011
Earlier this week we announced the availability of another DW appliance from HP called the HP...
Author: Shashank Pawar Date: 06/09/2011