I coauthored my 15th book Together with Christian Cote (lead author) and Matija Lah (coauthor) we publishes SQL Server 2017 Integration Services Cookbook. Of course, it is kind of early to say this is a definitive guide to SSIS 2017. More accurate name would be SSIS 2016 / 2017 Cookbook. Besides detailed guidelines how to use the 2016 version, you ...

Here we go for the fifth time! The leading event dedicated to Microsoft SQL Server in Slovenia, PASS SQL Saturday #687, will take place on Saturday, December 9th 2017, at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science of the University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, Ljubljana (https://www.fri.uni-lj.si/en/about-faculty/how-to-reach-us). This is ...

Our third SQL Saturday in Ljubljana is over. Two weeks seems to be enough time to sleep over and see things a bit from a distance. Without any further delays, I can declare that it is clear that the event was a pure success Let me start with the numbers, comparing total number of people, including speakers, sponsors, attendees, and organizers, ...

Clustering is the process of grouping the data into classes or clusters so that objects within a cluster have high similarity in comparison to one another, but are very dissimilar to objects in other clusters. Dissimilarities are assessed based on the attribute values describing the objects. There are a large number of clustering algorithms. The ...

So the event is over. I think I can say for all three organizers, Mladen Prajdić, Matija Lah, and me, that we are tired now. However, we are extremely satisfied. It was a great event. First few numbers and comparison with SQL Saturday #274, the first SQL Saturday Slovenia event that took place last year. ...

Pure success! I could simply stop here. However, I want to mention again everybody involved in this, and also some who were unfortunately missing. First of all, PASS is the organization that defined SQL Saturdays. And apparently the idea works I have to thank again to all of the speakers. Coming to share your amazing knowledge is something we ...

I recently posted a blog entry on how cloud computing would change the Systems Architect’s role in an organization. In a way, the Systems Architect has the easiest transition to a new way of using computing technologies. In fact, that’s actually part of the job description. I mentioned that a Systems Architect has three primary ...

A new term - well, perhaps not that new - has come up and I’m actually very excited about it. The term is Data Scientist, and since it’s new, it’s fairly undefined. I’ll explain what I think it means, and why I’m excited about it. In general, I’ve found the term deals at its most basic with analyzing data. Of course, we all do that, and the term ...

Last week Microsoft announced several new offerings for “Big Data” - and since I’m a stickler for definitions, I wanted to make sure I understood what that really means. What is “Big Data”? What size hard drive is that? After all, my laptop has 1TB of storage - is my laptop “Big Data”? There are actually a few definitions for this term, most ...

This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Description: On-premise data will be a part of computing for quite some time – ...