Big Data Support
This is the team blog for the Big Data Analytics & NoSQL Support team at Microsoft. We support HDInsight which is Hadoop running on Azure in the cloud, as well as other big data analytics features.
HDInsight News - New Articles to read
Hi Folks, I'm Jason from the Microsoft Big Data Support team. Thanks for reading our blog, and for...
Author: JasonHowell Date: 03/07/2014
Mahout with HDInsight
My name is Sudhir and I work with the Microsoft HDInsight support team. The other day, my colleague,...
Author: sudhirblog Date: 02/19/2014
How to pass Hadoop configuration values for a job on HDInsight
I came across the question a few times recently from several customers– "how do we pass hadoop...
Author: Azim Uddin Date: 02/13/2014
How to manually compile and create your own jar file to execute on HDInsight
Hi, my name is Bill Carroll and I am a member of the Microsoft HDInsight support team. At the heart...
Author: carrollwp Date: 01/21/2014
How to add custom Hive UDFs to HDInsight
I recently had a need to add a UDF to Hive on HDInsight. I thought that it would be good to share...
Author: Dharshana_Bharadwaj Date: 01/14/2014
Mount Azure Blob Storage as Local Drive
Gregory Suarez – 01/09/2014 I was recently working with a colleague of mine who submitted a...
Author: Gregory Suarez - MSFT Date: 01/09/2014
Getting started with the HDInsight PowerShell tools and SDK
Hi, my name is Azim and I work on the Big Data Support Team at Microsoft. If you have had a chance...
Author: Azim Uddin Date: 11/21/2013
The HDInsight Support Team is Open for Business
Hi, my name is Dan and I work on the HDInsight Support Team at Microsoft. This week the Azure...
Author: Dan (MSFT) Date: 11/01/2013
We’ll be at SQL Saturday BI Edition #237 in Charlotte, NC
We have several engineers attending and presenting at SQL Saturday BI Edition #237 this Saturday...
Author: Rick_H Date: 10/18/2013
Welcome to the Big Data Support Blog
This is the official home of the Microsoft Big Data Support team. We will be writing about the new...
Author: Todd DeDecker Date: 10/16/2013