SQL Server 2016

Here’s a rundown of my favourite new features in SQL Server 2016, largely inspired by the SQL Server Evolution video.

Impact of Cloud-First on SQL Design

This is a really nice illustration of the consequences of Cloud-First for Microsoft products.

SQL has been basically flipped around as a product. ...

Azure ML - Simple Linear Regression

Now that we got the basics of Machine Learning out of the way, let’s look at Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML)!

In this blog, I will assume you know how to setup your workbench.

In general, there are quite a few great resources for Azure ML:

• Machine Learning Documentation Center
• Machine Learning...

Team IQ

I’m still catching up on the articles I read months ago and wanted to share with you!

This one has been published in the New York Times and is about the intelligence of a team or the team IQ.  It asks why some teams are...

Machine Learning - An Introduction - Part 2

In a past blog entry I gave an overview of what Machine Learning is.  I showed a simple linear regression example.  The goal really was to explain to newcomer to the field what Machine Learning is, what type of problem it tries to solve and what the general approach is.

Of course, I used an extremely simple example in...

Azure Key Vault is now generally available

Azure Key Vault is now generally available!

What does it change?  Well, it gives us way more stability in the service in terms of API surface but also, it backs the entire service with an SLA!

You can read some of my past articles about Azure Key Vault:

• Introduction
• Step by step
...