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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

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

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