Synapse is a great data lake house tool. This means in a single tool we have resources to manage a data lake and data warehouse. The Synapse Serverless Pool is great to manage data lakes and for a great price: around us$ 5,00 for each TB of data queried. This makes it a great choice. … Read more
Once upon a time, we got the Data Warehouse concept. A concept as great as difficult to implement. The definition of this concept may surprise you nowadays: the Data Warehouse is a collection of structured and unstructured data. The structured data is what we usually know, but what happened to the unstructured data on this … Read more
There's a joke doing the rounds at SQL conferences and seminars: three DBAs walk into a NoSQL bar and leave when they can't find a table. You may have heard it before, but it made Matt Hilbert sit down and ponder. What's happening? Is there a division opening up between the newly fashionable NoSQL followers and DBAs? Matt bravely enters the shiny new world of NoSQL to investigate.… Read more
The Term 'Big Data' is nothing more than a fad, and we'll soon be cringing with embarrassment at the thought that we ever used it. However, the data, and the challenges to processing it that it presents, will stay with us. If jargon like 'Big Data' helps us focus on the problems, then let's use it: temporarily, perhaps.… Read more
