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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To troubleshoot potential connectivity issues for Azure AD authentication featureavailable for public preview (see https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/sql-database-aad-authentication/...
View ArticleOPENJSON - 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...
View ArticleHow 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....
View ArticleCortana 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...
View ArticleFree 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...
View ArticleAvoiding 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...
View ArticleBuild & 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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