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	<title>Thinknook &#187; MS SQL Server</title>
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		<title>In-Memory (Memory Optimized) Tables in SQL Server 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In-Memory storage technology finally make their debut appearance on the SQL Server 2014&#8217;s BI stack, with the creation of a proper memory optimized tables and stored procedures, unlike the Columnstore feature which offers a read-only memory optimized solution, that does not work overly well in a true transactional environment. In this post I hope to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting SQL Server and Analysis Services to Hadoop Hive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hadoop is a pretty neat set of tools for processing loads of data in a distributed, parallel and easy to scale-out manner, and so rightfully the Hadoop toolset owns a pretty high position in the data analysis and BI game, and a must consider when embarking on any new big data project. But that being [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Ways to Optimize and Improve Performance of your SSIS Package</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title should actually read &#8220;8 Random Ways to Optimise SSIS&#8221;. One of the recent project I have been working on involved building a distributed (scaled-out) SSIS environment, this means multiple VMs with a standalone SSIS (2012 in Package mode) instances installed (so no SQL Server Database Engine), all pushing massive amount of data to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server 2014 CTP is Out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinknook.com/?p=1135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Its a RDBMs, no its a ColumnStore, no its a cloud integrated storage platform&#8230; Oh its actually SQL Server 2014! Exciting news as the new (project code-name: Hekaton) SQL Server 2014 is community technology preview (CTP1) is out and can be downloaded and evaluated by the community. There is a host of exciting and long awaited [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Altering Calculations for a Deployed (Live) SSAS Cube</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinknook.com/?p=1113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a pretty simple post to show how to alter (add, remove or edit) a calculated field in an SSAS cube without redeploying the whole project, a useful technique if you do not have the SSAS cube project handy or wish to quickly implement changes on a live cube. In order to edit a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Diagnosing Kerberos Delegation Issues on SQL Server, SharePoint, SSRS and SSAS</title>
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		<comments>http://thinknook.com/diagnosing-kerberos-issues-with-sql-server-sharepoint-ssrs-ssas-2013-06-01/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, I have found working with Kerberos when setting up a SQL Server stack to be a complete nightmarish experience, mainly due to two reasons: Working with Kerberos usually requires access rights to Active Directory for the account setting up this authentication protocol on the stack, in order to be able to effectively diagnose [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Ways to Visualize Geographical (Location) Data in Excel 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 11:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinknook.com/?p=1096</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Excel 2013 brings forward an array of new and exciting features at the finger tips of the data analysts, ranging from a shiny new visualization and exploratory data analysis platform (PowerView) to a number of new pivoting features as well as a powerful in-memory data modelling engine (PowerPivot) enabled by default. Among all these features, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>HDInsight Hadoop Cluster is not Responding Issue</title>
		<link>http://thinknook.com/hdinsight-hadoop-cluster-is-not-responding-issue-2013-03-31/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hdinsight-hadoop-cluster-is-not-responding-issue</link>
		<comments>http://thinknook.com/hdinsight-hadoop-cluster-is-not-responding-issue-2013-03-31/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick post to describe a solution to a problem I was having with my local installation of the HDInsight Hadoop cluster. The issue started after I restarted my Virtual Machine, on which my HDInsight Hadoop instance was installed, the cluster was responding fine previous to the restart, but then afterwards I started receiving [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Rehashing SQL Server Hashing Algorithms for Large Text Fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinknook.com/?p=1048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hashing can be a very useful technique when dealing with the storage and look up of large text fields (say a table of URLs or Search Keywords), these fields will incur high resource utilization on any database engine if used directly in DML statements, in which they are either filtered by or aggregated on. Any index built on these [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>SSIS vs Hadoop &#8211; a Mapping Performance Showdown</title>
		<link>http://thinknook.com/ssis-vs-hadoop-a-mapping-performance-showdown-2013-02-28/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ssis-vs-hadoop-a-mapping-performance-showdown</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinknook.com/?p=1015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On one corner we have Hadoop, a massively distributed JVM-based data processing engine with a Map &#38; Reduce API and a proven track record in handling huge data-sets. On the other corner we have SSIS, a natively non-distributed ETL engine part of the SQL Server family tool-set with .NET code extensibility features and a drag and drop [&#8230;]]]></description>
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