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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for 2015
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7 days ago
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Shashank Pawar
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Thank you for the great in-memories this year with SQL Server 2014 and Power ful insights. It got a little unstructured but it was good to know Polybase was there to make it easy. With Ozure coming online everyone can relax this holiday season knowing...
PowerBI Update Preview Available Now
Posted
11 days ago
by
Shashank Pawar
The PowerBI Update preview is now available at - http://powerbi.com/dashboards/tour . You can experience the new self-service BI solution. The preview is available for customers with a US address. New country support will be coming in months. Existing...
SQL Server 2014 Upgrade Technical Guide now Available
Posted
13 days ago
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Shashank Pawar
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To attain a smooth and trouble-free upgrade to SQL Server 2014, you must plan for the upgrade and address the complexities of your application.This document takes you through the essential technical details for planning and testing an upgrade of existing...
Gartner Recognizes Microsoft as a Leader, Positioned Furthest to the Right for Vision, in its Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems
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1 month ago
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Shashank Pawar
Gartner, Inc. has positioned Microsoft as a Leader for the second year in a row in the Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems (October 16, 2014), based on ability to execute and completeness of vision for Microsoft’s complete...
Azure Machine Learning Overview at Big Data Meetup
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1 month ago
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Shashank Pawar
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PowerBI - Gain Insights using familarity of Excel and power of the cloud with Office 365
Posted
1 month ago
by
Shashank Pawar
Our session on Power BI from Teched Melbourne & Sydney is now available on Channel 9 - below is the link http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Australia/2014/OSS206 Thank you for those that attended the last session on the Monday evening...
Hoooooraay Ozure is live - Azure DCs in Australia are now available to be selected in Azure Portal
Posted
2 months ago
by
Shashank Pawar
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SQL Saturday in Sydney, October 25th
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2 months ago
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Shashank Pawar
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Teched 2014 - See you in Melbourne & Sydney at my session on Power BI
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2 months ago
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Shashank Pawar
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Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight
Posted
6 months ago
by
Shashank Pawar
Download the free ebook on the HDInsight Windows Azure Service. This service lets you spin up a hadoop cluster in minutes. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2014/05/27/free-ebook-introducing-microsoft-azure-hdinsight.aspx
ebook: Database as a Service using Windows Azure Pack
Posted
7 months ago
by
Shashank Pawar
Download the ebook to see how you can enable Windows Azure Pack to run a private cloud for your data platform - http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Enabling-Database-as-a-f53ec2a0
Now that SQL Server 2014 is out - wondering how you can leverage the power of In-Memory OLTP for your applications
Posted
8 months ago
by
Shashank Pawar
Take a look at this great whitepaper recently published that discusses common patterns for implementing and leveraging the new In-memory OLTP capabilities of SQL Server 2014. Download the whitepaper from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn673538...
SQL Server 2014 sets world record breaking performance according to TPC benchmarks
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8 months ago
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Shashank Pawar
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On April 16, the industry standard organization for performance benchmarking, TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council), verified that Microsoft SQL Server 2014 broke the world record for the On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload with...
SQL Server 2014 Database as a Service Whitepaper
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8 months ago
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Shashank Pawar
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Database as a Service Reference Architecture Guide: SQL Server 2014 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=42321 This guide to building the infrastructure for hosting Microsoft® SQL Server® Database as a Service...
SQL Server 2014 Essentials for Oracle DBAs
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9 months ago
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Shashank Pawar
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With the availability of SQL Server 2014 just around the corner as per my previous blog post, it would be a good time to start training. Those of you that may have been using other flavours of SQL can now look to leverage the performance boosting in-memory...
SQL Server 2014 RTM today - Available 1st April 2014 (USA date)
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9 months ago
by
Shashank Pawar
SQL Server 2014, the foundation of Microsoft’s cloud-first data platform, is released to manufacturing and will be generally available on April 1st 2014 (US date). SQL Server 2014 provides organisations with a data platform: Delivering...
Power BI Training
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9 months ago
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Shashank Pawar
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I have been getting lot of requests on what are some resources available to learn more about Power BI, as such below are some links and Microsoft partners that offer training: Online Training: Faster insights to data with Power BI - http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy...
Quickest way to deploy a Microsoft BI environment based on SharePoint - in the Windows Azure cloud
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10 months ago
by
Shashank Pawar
I have recently been talking to a lot of customers and partners about what is the fastest way to deploy a Microsoft BI environment leveraging SharePoint and i usually point them to the following articles on msdn which have Power Shell scripts to deploy...
System Center Management Packs for SQL Server 2008 & 2012 Analysis Services
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10 months ago
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Shashank Pawar
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The management packs for SQL Server Analysis Services 2008/2012 are now available to download from below links System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2008...
Best Wishes for the Festive Season and Happy New Year – may it light up with Power BI
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over 1 year ago
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Shashank Pawar
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It has been a while since I have blogged, however I have recently been busy with customers and partners talking about Power BI – www.powerbi.com . I have really been enjoying being able to quickly gain insight from both internal and external datasets...
Perceptive Pixel (PPI) and Power BI
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over 1 year ago
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Shashank Pawar
I recently had the opportunity to setup the new Perceptive Pixel screens from Microsoft, these are various display sizes - 55inch, 82inches, and the one I setup was 55 inches. Microsoft recently acquired Perceptive Pixel and we are starting to make available...
Learn how Microsoft finance professionals use business intelligence
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over 1 year ago
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Shashank Pawar
1
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You are invited. As a finance professional you are immersed in data. Odds are you spend a lot of your time using old tools and dreaming of a better way to do things. There is a better way with Microsoft's newly released business intelligence solutions...
Fusion-io: The Breakthrough Experience for SQL Server
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over 1 year ago
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Shashank Pawar
1
Comment
Join Fusion-io and Microsoft , the leaders in flash memory and enterprise database solutions, to learn how to Unleash the Performance of your business and mission critical SQL Server-based applications. See how Microsoft and Fusion-io products combine...
Start saving $$$ now, with the SQL Server Backup to Windows Azure Tool
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Shashank Pawar
Microsoft SQL Server Backup to Windows Azure Tool enables backup to Windows Azure Blob Storage and encrypts and compresses SQL Server backups stored locally or in the cloud. Download from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40740...
Free Ebook - Introducing Windows Azure for IT Professionals
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over 1 year ago
by
Shashank Pawar
Below is the link to a free ebook from Microsoft Press on Windows Auzre. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2013/10/01/free-ebook-introducing-windows-azure-for-it-professionals.aspx?loc=zTS1z&prod=zWAz&tech=zOttechz&prog=zPressz&type...
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