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Getting Started with Solr & Carrot2 Clustering

Every time I start a new Solr project I have to remind myself with the basics again, such as…

Keyword Stemming and Lemmatisation with Apache Solr

I started working recently with Apache Solr, and I am hugely impressed, the search technology is…

In-Memory (Memory Optimized) Tables and OLTP with SQL Server 2014

In-Memory storage technology finally make their debut appearance on the SQL Server 2014′s BI stack,…

Connecting SQL Server and Analysis Services to Hadoop Hive

Hadoop is a pretty neat set of tools for processing loads of data in a distributed, parallel and…

Visual Studio 2013 Preview is Available for Download

Well its Preview release week at Microsoft, and the new and shiny VisualStudio 2013 is now…

8 Ways to Optimize and Improve Performance of your SSIS Package

The title should actually read “7 Random Ways to Optimise SSIS”.

One of the recent project I have…

SQL Server 2014 CTP is Out!

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Its a RDBMs, no its a ColumnStore, no its a cloud integrated storage…

Altering Calculations for a Deployed (Live) SSAS Cube

This is a pretty simple post to show how to alter (add, remove or edit) a calculated field in an…

Diagnosing Kerberos Delegation Issues on SQL Server, SharePoint, SSRS and SSAS

Until now, I have found working with Kerberos when setting up a SQL Server stack to be a complete…

4 Ways to Visualize Geographical (Location) Data in Excel 2013

Excel 2013 brings forward an array of new and exciting features at the finger tips of the data…

HDInsight Hadoop Cluster is not Responding Issue

This is a quick post to describe a solution to a problem I was having with my local installation…

Rehashing SQL Server Hashing Algorithms for Large Text Fields

Hashing can be a very useful technique when dealing with the storage and look up of large text…