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Passionately curious about Data, Databases and Systems Complexity. Data is ubiquitous, the database universe is dichotomous (structured and unstructured), expanding and complex. Find my Database Research at SQLToolkit.co.uk . Microsoft Data Platform MVP

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing" Einstein



Monday 15 August 2016

DocumentDB Tools

There is a useful cheat sheet to help with writing DocumentDB queries. This can be downloaded here









































Estimate Request Units and Data Storage
https://www.documentdb.com/capacityplanner


Query Playground converts T-SQL Syntax to JSON
https://www.documentdb.com/sql/demo


Friday 5 August 2016

OpenMinds 2016 Database Research

The 'Get Animated about Research' article shares details about my research with the kind help of my friend Andrew Fryer. The article on page 10-12 is in the annual OpenMinds 2016 magazine dubbed 'the journal for enquiring minds', The Open University alumni publication.


Thursday 4 August 2016

Document Database Comparisions

Azure DocumentDB is a NoSQL database that leverages a write-optimised, latch-free database engine service for highly available and globally distributed apps.








An interesting comparison of DocumentDB offerings.