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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
The problem statement A few weeks ago, a customer on stackoverflow asked for a solution for the...
Date: 06/08/2016
Hi all It has been several years since I last blogged on my MSDN blog. Partially because I have been...
Date: 06/07/2016
I am giving 3 presentations at SQL PASS 2007 in Denver: Wednesday, September 19th, 9:45am to 11am,...
Date: 09/19/2007
At today's TechEd 2007 in Orlando, we have annouced SQL Server 2008's, formerly known as Katmai,...
Date: 06/04/2007
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
Tomorrow I will be on my way to Europe for the SQL Server Launch Events in Zurich and Lausanne...
Date: 11/26/2005
Now that we have shipped SQL Server 2005, I am happy to see that people are interested in using it....
Date: 11/16/2005
The Windows Server System team is doing a Learning and Help survey and need more SQL Server specific...
Date: 11/14/2005
Finally, after 6 years of hard work, the W3C has released the Candidate Recommendation specs for...
Date: 11/03/2005
The PDC 2005 videos are now online (via...
Date: 10/27/2005
We have RTM'ed today! Today, we have released SQL Server 2005 and VisualStudio 2005 and the .Net...
Date: 10/27/2005
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
The last year has been tough on many. Many people have been and are getting killed in wars and...
Date: 10/10/2005
While we are less than a month away from the official launch week of SQL Server 2005, I am still...
Date: 10/10/2005
In SQL Server 2005 versions up to the June CTP, the XML parser on the server-side defaulted to...
Date: 10/10/2005
Since we got "upgraded" from .Text to Community server, we are not getting good referrer log...
Date: 10/06/2005
As many others in the SQL Server community, I have travelled to Grapevine, Texas to attend and...
Date: 09/28/2005
Our VLDB 2005 paper on the innards of our XQuery implementation is now available online. Shankar...
Date: 09/22/2005
The friendly folks of the F5 Networks Dev Central team interviewed me at PDC 2005. The 5 minute...
Date: 09/22/2005
The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released the following Working Drafts of XML Query 1.0,...
Date: 09/16/2005
Waehrend TechEd 2005 in Amsterdam hatte ich das Vergnuegen, mich mit Martin Szugat zu unterhalten....
Date: 09/16/2005
First, we have released the September SQL Server 2005 CTP for download. This is the last CTP before...
Date: 09/14/2005
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
I am deeply saddened by the suffering of the people in New Orleans and surroundings, South Alabama...
Date: 09/03/2005
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, because I will be presenting a...
Date: 08/28/2005
Tim interviewed me as part of the earlier mentioned wireside chats, and has now published the...
Date: 07/21/2005
As I mentioned earlier, XQuery 1.0/XPath 2.0 has still one last call issue that that can benefit...
Date: 07/13/2005
While I have been a bit quiet over the last couple of weeks mainly due to presenting at two...
Date: 07/13/2005
After long arguments and petitions, Nithya is collecting feedback on what the XML Team should focus...
Date: 06/09/2005
As Paul Flessner publicly announced at his TechEd 2005 keynote, the world-wide RTM launch date has...
Date: 06/07/2005
This posting is aggregating my TechEd 2005 weblog postings. I will update it over the duration of...
Date: 06/06/2005
Kent just published an example on how to get recursive XML structures (think employee-manager). The...
Date: 05/11/2005
Finally, all SP4 bugs are fixed and all tests are passing: We have achieved lift off for SQL Server...
Date: 05/06/2005
A recent weblog entry by Jim Fawcett that recaps Jon's recap of our wireside chat contains the...
Date: 05/05/2005
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
You will be able to get the WebCast recording and copies of the slides from the MSDN website...
Date: 04/27/2005
Last week, I had three one-on-one “wireside“ chats with Tim Anderson, Jon Udell, and Peter Coffee....
Date: 04/26/2005
As part of our improvements on OpenXML, we have changed the MSXML component from 2.6 to 3.0 (running...
Date: 04/23/2005
A couple of months ago, I provided feedback on an article on XML support in DB2 written by Philip...
Date: 04/21/2005
Kirk Allen Evans gives an example how to generate a base64 encoded WordML binData element. Just for...
Date: 04/19/2005
FOR XML in SQL Server 2000 puts the burden of generating and maintaining XML namespaces completely...
Date: 04/19/2005
As many of you probably already have heard, we have publicly released the April Community Tech...
Date: 04/19/2005