Data Platform week in review – November 14, 2016

This is the first edition of Data Platform Week in review covering Cortana Intelligence Suite, SQL Server and R Server.

Upcoming Events:

Connect(); is back for the third year in a row and will be livestreaming globally from New York City starting November 16.

Blogs:

We published over 30 blogs recently in 25 different blog sites for Data Platform across Azure, MSDN and TechNet to cover the rich portfolio of Microsoft Data platform products

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Blog Title

Products & Services

1

Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ Session on Big Data & Analytics

Big Data & Analytics

2

9 Things You Should Do To Optimize HBase Performance in HDInsight

Big Data: HDInsight

3

Announcing the Winners – Women’s Health Risk Assessment Competition

Azure Machine Learning

4

Connected Drones: 3 Powerful Lessons We Can All Take Away

Azure Deep Learning

5

New Additions to the Data Science Virtual Machine – Test Drive, Community Forums, Deep Learning

Data Science VM

6

Introducing Custom Modules in the Cortana Intelligence Gallery

Cortana Intelligence

7

Azure DocumentDB updates: quick start experience, backup and restore, and firewall support

Azure Document DB

9

.Net 4.6.2. Framework client driver for Always Encrypted resulting in intermittent failures to decrypt individual rows

SQL Server 2016

10

Microsoft Azure SQL Database provides unparalleled performance with In-Memory technologies

Azure SQL DB

11

Oops Recovery with Temporal Tables

SQL Server 2016

12

How bwin is using SQL Server 2016 In-Memory OLTP to achieve unprecedented performance and scale

SQL Server 2016

13

Columnstore Index: Why do I need to create clustered columnstore Index on In-Memory OLTP- tables for Analytics?

SQL Server 2016

14

In-Memory OLTP: Is your database just in memory or actually optimized for memory?

SQL Server 2016

15

Columnstore Index: Which Columnstore Index is right for my workload?

SQL Server 2016

16

Columnstore index: Why do we refer to it as In-Memory Analytics?

SQL Server 2016

17

Community contributions to the PowerShell scripts for Reporting Services

SQL Server 2016

18

Introducing List view for managing your reports

SQL Server Reporting Services

19

SQL Server 2016 improvements for SAP (BW)

SQL Server 2016

20

Migrating SAP workloads to SQL Server just got 2.5x faster

SQL Server 2016

21

.Net 4.6.2. Framework client driver for Always Encrypted resulting in intermittent failures to decrypt individual rows

SQL Server 2016

22

Announcing SQL Server Management Studio -16.5 Release

SQL Server 2016

23

Because it&;s Friday: Current Status

R Server

24

A computer vision challenge: finding boats in the Mona Lisa

R Server

25

Airbnb grows by sharing data scientist knowledge

R Server

26

How Did the Pollsters Get It So Wrong?

R Server

27

Data Manipulation at Scale with Microsoft R Server & Spark on Azure HDInsight

R Server

28

RStudio v1.0 released

R Server

29

Because it&039;s Friday: We went all the way!

R Server

30

Update to dplyrXdf: subsetting, column extraction operators

R Server

31

A look back at the Cubs and Indians performance

R Server

32

A Bayesian election prediction, implemented with R and Stan

R Server

33

glmnetUtils: quality of life enhancements for elastic net regression with glmnet

R Server

34

R 3.3.2 now available

R Server

We are making our Data platform products and innovations more accessible to all developers – on any platform, on-premises and in the cloud.

The live broadcast of Connect(); begins on November 16th at 9:45am EST, and continues with interactive Q&A and immersive on-demand content. Join us to learn more about these amazing innovations.

 

Anand
Quelle: Azure

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