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Data Science News from Microsoft Ignite 2019

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Azure Synapse Analytics can be seen as a merge of Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake. Synapse allows one to use SQL to query petabytes of data, both relational and non-relational, with amazing speed. Azure Synapse. I think this announcement will have a very large and immediate impact.

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Drowning in Data? A Data Lake May Be Your Lifesaver

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Such growth makes it difficult for many enterprises to leverage big data; they end up spending valuable time and resources just trying to manage data and less time analyzing it. One way to address this is to implement a data lake: a large and complex database of diverse datasets all stored in their original format.

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Cloud Data Science News Beta #1

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Azure Synapse Analytics This is the future of data warehousing. It combines data warehousing and data lakes into a simple query interface for a simple and fast analytics service. SQL Server 2019 SQL Server 2019 went Generally Available.

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Why Open Table Format Architecture is Essential for Modern Data Systems

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Note : Cloud Data warehouses like Snowflake and Big Query already have a default time travel feature. However, this feature becomes an absolute must-have if you are operating your analytics on top of your data lake or lakehouse. It can also be integrated into major data platforms like Snowflake. Contact phData Today!

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Best 8 Data Version Control Tools for Machine Learning 2024

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Adding new data to the storage requires pulling the existing data, then calculating the new hash before pushing back the whole data. Dolt Created in 2019, Dolt is an open-source tool for managing SQL databases that uses version control similar to Git. This can also make the learning process challenging.

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Insiders Cite The Wondrous Benefits Of Big Data In Fortnite

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However, more mainstream games use big data as well. Fortnite is one of the games that uses big data to offer great service to its customers. Even Forbes Tech Council has written about the benefits of data lakes in Fortnite. Processing and analyzing this data — petabytes worth — must happen somewhere.

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Why Easier Governance Is Superior Governance

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And those who practice these “old school” governance methods have little confidence in their efficacy: 73% of Ventana research participants stated that spreadsheets were a data governance concern for their organization, while 59% viewed incompatible tools as the top barrier to a single source of truth. And it’s growing in popularity.