Microsoft regularly delivers new functionality for its Power BI data analytics and visualisation services, but rarely does it change how you pay for it or how you deploy it. In May 2017, it has and some of the changes are significant.
The importance of bringing Python to SQL Server
Microsoft proudly announced this week that SQL Server 2017 will be the first relational database engine to ship with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. In the future, database servers running its software won’t just be able to store, query, and analyse data. Instead, they’ll also..
Azure Data Factory Best Practices: Part 1
Recently I have been working on several projects that have made use of Azure Data Factory (ADF) for ETL. During these projects it became very clear to me that I would need to implement and follow certain key principles when developing with ADF. This is the first of a series of posts which will..
The evolution of artificial intelligence
Over the course of the next few months, I’m going to be presenting at a number of data related community meetups about “The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence”.
Analysing the future of Microsoft analytics
Microsoft’s new Azure Data Lake service provides us with just as much insight about Microsoft’s strategic plans as it does with new technology.