Michael Rys
Exploring Big Data and Data Lakes with U-SQL
Some highlights of the Summer 2017 refreshes for Azure Data Lake Analytics and U-SQL: GZip on OUTPUT, Catalog Views, DiagnosticStream in .NET user code, Major updates to Cognitive Libraries, Tool support to create your EXTRACT statement
We have been very busy over the summer and released several refreshes whose release notes I finally...
Date: 10/05/2017
Some highlights of the March and April 2017 U-SQL refreshs: PIVOT/UNPIVOT, Sharing across ADLA accounts, U-SQL Packages, fast file sets, new default numbers of HASH DISTRIBUTION buckets, easier C# integration with CROSS APPLY
The last two Azure Data Lake refreshs in March and April brought a lot of interesting new...
Date: 04/27/2017
February Azure Data Lake Refresh will complete deprecation for old "PARTITION BY BUCKET" and credential DDL syntax in U-SQL
In the upcoming February refresh, we will be turning some deprecation warnings into errors. Please...
Date: 01/24/2017
How to deal with files containing rows with different column counts in U-SQL: Introducing a Flexible Schema Extractor
If your input data is not rectangular in nature, but contains rows with different column counts, the...
Date: 08/15/2016
Some highlights of the August 1st U-SQL refresh: Skipping header rows, Database Level ACLs, improved Extractor framework
We just released some big updates on U-SQL and Azure Data Lake. Check out the U-SQL release notes...
Date: 08/03/2016
How do I combine overlapping ranges using U-SQL? Introducing U-SQL Reducer UDOs
The problem statement A few weeks ago, a customer on stackoverflow asked for a solution for the...
Date: 06/08/2016
I am back on my MSDN blog talking about Big Data, Azure Data Lake and U-SQL
Hi all It has been several years since I last blogged on my MSDN blog. Partially because I have been...
Date: 06/07/2016
Update on SQL PASS 2007 Presentations
I am giving 3 presentations at SQL PASS 2007 in Denver: Wednesday, September 19th, 9:45am to 11am,...
Date: 09/19/2007
SQL Server 2008 June CTP has been annouced at TechEd 2007
At today's TechEd 2007 in Orlando, we have annouced SQL Server 2008's, formerly known as Katmai,...
Date: 06/04/2007
What do you want to see regarding XML support in the next version of SQL Server?
Now that we have shipped SQL Server 2005, I would really like to hear from you what you want us to...
Date: 11/26/2005
Watch out Europe - Here I come...
Tomorrow I will be on my way to Europe for the SQL Server Launch Events in Zurich and Lausanne...
Date: 11/26/2005
SQL Server 2005, MySpace.com and Quiznos: What do they have in common?
Now that we have shipped SQL Server 2005, I am happy to see that people are interested in using it....
Date: 11/16/2005
International SQL Server Survey: Win a portable music player!
The Windows Server System team is doing a Learning and Help survey and need more SQL Server specific...
Date: 11/14/2005
XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 are now in Candidate Recommendation
Finally, after 6 years of hard work, the W3C has released the Candidate Recommendation specs for...
Date: 11/03/2005
PDC 2005 Videos and Slides and demos are now online
The PDC 2005 videos are now online (via...
Date: 10/27/2005
The light at the end of the tunnel is bright sunshine!
We have RTM'ed today! Today, we have released SQL Server 2005 and VisualStudio 2005 and the .Net...
Date: 10/27/2005
Welcome Jinghao Liu to the Blogosphere
It is my pleasure to introduce you all to Jinghao's weblog. He is our test lead and so far seems to...
Date: 10/14/2005
First Wars, then Tsunamis, Famines and Hurricanes, and now Earthquakes
The last year has been tough on many. Many people have been and are getting killed in wars and...
Date: 10/10/2005
XML related changes to the September CTP
While we are less than a month away from the official launch week of SQL Server 2005, I am still...
Date: 10/10/2005
Changes to the default encoding handling of XML when passing XML from the client to the server.
In SQL Server 2005 versions up to the June CTP, the XML parser on the server-side defaulted to...
Date: 10/10/2005
Why are you searching for "sp_xml_preparedocument Failed load msxmlsql"?
Since we got "upgraded" from .Text to Community server, we are not getting good referrer log...
Date: 10/06/2005
Presentations at SQLPASS 2005 (Grapevine, Tx)
As many others in the SQL Server community, I have travelled to Grapevine, Texas to attend and...
Date: 09/28/2005
The innards of our XQuery implementation
Our VLDB 2005 paper on the innards of our XQuery implementation is now available online. Shankar...
Date: 09/22/2005
The PDC F5 Network Interview is now online
The friendly folks of the F5 Networks Dev Central team interviewed me at PDC 2005. The 5 minute...
Date: 09/22/2005
New XQuery and XSLT Working Drafts: We are making progress!
The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released the following Working Drafts of XML Query 1.0,...
Date: 09/16/2005
Something for my German speaking audience: Mein Interview mit Martin Szugat
Waehrend TechEd 2005 in Amsterdam hatte ich das Vergnuegen, mich mit Martin Szugat zu unterhalten....
Date: 09/16/2005
News from the PDC 2005: XQuery, LINQ and friends, SQL Server 2005 September CTP
First, we have released the September SQL Server 2005 CTP for download. This is the last CTP before...
Date: 09/14/2005
PDC 2005 XQuery Deep Dive talk outline
Here is the high-level outline of the talk I am planning on presenting. Note that there is lots of...
Date: 09/07/2005
"An invalid character was found" errors when upgrading sp_xml_preparedocument from SQL Server 2000 SP3 to SP4 or SQL Server 2005
Recently, I received several customer reports, that sp_xml_preparedocument started rasing the...
Date: 09/06/2005
Hurricane Katrina: How to help
I am deeply saddened by the suffering of the people in New Orleans and surroundings, South Alabama...
Date: 09/03/2005
Channel 9 and Ken North Videos
I am back from vacation (no shark encounter :-)). I had a good time and have much more photos and...
Date: 08/28/2005
Get your scuba gear for PDC 05 and get ready to dive into XQuery
Get your scuba gear for PDC 05 and get ready to dive into XQuery, because I will be presenting a...
Date: 08/28/2005
Interviewed by Tim Anderson
Tim interviewed me as part of the earlier mentioned wireside chats, and has now published the...
Date: 07/21/2005
XQuery1.0/XPath 2.0 needs your help!
As I mentioned earlier, XQuery 1.0/XPath 2.0 has still one last call issue that that can benefit...
Date: 07/13/2005
The SQL Server XML weblogs are blooming and other "news"
While I have been a bit quiet over the last couple of weeks mainly due to presenting at two...
Date: 07/13/2005
Now is the time to provide feedback on XSLT/XPath/XQuery in .Net!
After long arguments and petitions, Nithya is collecting feedback on what the XML Team should focus...
Date: 06/09/2005
June CTP of SQL Server 2005 has been released: What's noteworthy in the XML area
As Paul Flessner publicly announced at his TechEd 2005 keynote, the world-wide RTM launch date has...
Date: 06/07/2005
TechEd 2005 Tidbits
This posting is aggregating my TechEd 2005 weblog postings. I will update it over the duration of...
Date: 06/06/2005
Recursion and FOR XML
Kent just published an example on how to get recursive XML structures (think employee-manager). The...
Date: 05/11/2005
SQL Server 2000 SP4 RTM released
Finally, all SP4 bugs are fixed and all tests are passing: We have achieved lift off for SQL Server...
Date: 05/06/2005
Do XML Schema collections enable data tampering?
A recent weblog entry by Jim Fawcett that recaps Jon's recap of our wireside chat contains the...
Date: 05/05/2005
More speaking events: TechEd Europe and SQLPASS 2005
Here is an update on two more events where I will be speaking and where I hope to meet some of you:...
Date: 05/03/2005
Material for my MSDN WebCast "Making the Most of XQuery with SQL Server 2005"
You will be able to get the WebCast recording and copies of the slides from the MSDN website...
Date: 04/27/2005
Wireside chats
Last week, I had three one-on-one “wireside“ chats with Tim Anderson, Jon Udell, and Peter Coffee....
Date: 04/26/2005
Do you see "Failed to load Msxmlsql.dll" when using the April CTP with OpenXML?
As part of our improvements on OpenXML, we have changed the MSXML component from 2.6 to 3.0 (running...
Date: 04/23/2005
On "native" XML support in databases
A couple of months ago, I provided feedback on an article on XML support in DB2 written by Philip...
Date: 04/21/2005
How to use base64 encoding in SQL Server 2005
Kirk Allen Evans gives an example how to generate a base64 encoded WordML binData element. Just for...
Date: 04/19/2005
The new WITH XMLNAMESPACES clause
FOR XML in SQL Server 2000 puts the burden of generating and maintaining XML namespaces completely...
Date: 04/19/2005
April CTP has been released: What are the changes in the XML area
As many of you probably already have heard, we have publicly released the April Community Tech...
Date: 04/19/2005