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Excel Add-in for Azure ML
This blog post is authored by Ted Way, Program Manager in the Information Management & Machine Learning group at Microsoft. Today we are making available a free Excel add-in that you can use with...
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Let's chat about SQL Server cloud hosting
SQL Server DBAs and Azure Professionals, The SQL Server product team is looking for feedback and your individual perspectives about cloud hosted environments for SQL Server, whether you're focused on...
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Logging On To Azure ML With Your Work Or School Account
This blog post is authored by Hai Ning, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft.I am happy to announce that we have added a long-awaited feature to Azure Machine Learning – the ability to log on to ML...
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Introducing: SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.3
The SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.3 is now available for download! This release fully embraced the “Cloud First” tenet, as this release build was deployed to SQL Azure Database...
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SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.3 is available
The SQL Server engineering team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of SQL Server 2016 August monthly public preview release CTP 2.3. This release fully embraced the “Cloud First” tenet,...
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Download the new JDBC 4.2 for SQL Server Driver
We are pleased to announce availability of the Microsoft JDBC 4.2 Driver for SQL Server! The updated driver provides robust data access to Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL Database for...
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New edX Course: Data Science & Machine Learning Essentials
This post is by Chirag Dhull, Product Marketing Manager in the Data Platform Marketing Team at Microsoft. We are excited to announce the launch of our very first MOOC – Data Science & Machine...
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Cortana Analytics Workshop in Redmond tomorrow
We are excited to welcome attendees to the Cortana Analytics Workshop which starts in Redmond tomorrow. Several hundreds of Microsoft customers and partners are attending this two-day event. With 1 in...
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Enforcing uniqueness constraint in table with Clustered Columnstore Index
SQL Server introduced ‘updateable’ clustered columnstore index (CCI) starting with SQL Server 2014 to speed up analytics by orders of magnitude up to 100x while significantly reducing storage,...
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Data Munging with Azure ML
This guest post is by the faculty of our upcoming Data Science MOOC, Dr. Stephen Elston, Managing Director at Quantia Analytics & Professor Cynthia Rudin from M.I.T. Aspiring data scientists can...
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Loading non-relational data formatted as JSON text
JSON can be used to improve performance and reduce complexity in data load process if you serialize some entities as JSON collections. In this post we will see how you can use JSON columns in data load...
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Azure Active Directory Authentication – troubleshooting potential...
To troubleshoot potential connectivity issues for Azure AD authentication featureavailable for public preview (see https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/sql-database-aad-authentication/...
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OPENJSON - The easiest way to import JSON text into table
IntroductionIn SQL Server 2016 will be added a new table value function that can transform JSON text into row(s). In this post I will show how you can directly insert/update table rows using JSON...
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How to Find an Algorithm that Fits
This blog post is authored by Brandon Rohrer, Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft. Choosing a machine learning algorithm is a lot like shoe shopping. Performance isn’t the only thing you’re looking for....
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Cortana Analytics Suite Helps Diebold Predict ATM Failures
This post is co-authored by Katherine Lin, Data Scientist, and Tao Wu, Principal Data Scientist Manager at Microsoft. Unplanned machine downtime is a serious disruption to businesses across many...
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Free Webinar: Using Jupyter/IPython Notebooks in Azure ML
Jupyter notebooks (formerly IPython) provide a multi-lingual REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) canvas for data scientists and developers to explore ideas. You can enter some code and get a response. The...
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Avoiding technical debtor’s prison with the with the right data platform
“Technical debtor’s prison” is a term I recently came across in a Forrester Research report, "CIOs' Top Five Career-Ending Digital Transformation Challenges" by Bobby Cameron with Peter Burris, Rachael...
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Build & Deploy Predictive Web Apps Using RStudio and Azure ML
Authored by Raymond Laghaeian, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft.In this post, we will walk through the process of building a machine learning model in R, deploying it as a web service in Azure ML,...
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