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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

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Thursday 5 January 2017

DBMS of the Year

SQL Server is the DBMS of the Year.
http://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/67

DB-Engines.com write "Microsoft SQL Server is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 315 monitored systems. We thus declare Microsoft SQL Server as the DBMS of the Year 2016"

Wednesday 4 January 2017

Cloud Platform Comparison Chart















2017 begins with a cloud platform comparison chart created by Endjin for services by Microsoft, Amazon and Google. It can be downloaded from
https://endjin.com/thought-leadership/cloud-platform-comparison

Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning 2016 Blog Review

The Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog shared a summary of the top 10 posts of 2016. They included:










10. Recent Updates to the Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine
9. Introducing Microsoft R Server 9.0
8. Microsoft and Liebherr Collaborating on New Generation of Smart Refrigerators
7. Introducing the Team Data Science Process from Microsoft
6. Game On! Introducing Cortana Intelligence Competitions
5. A One-Step Program for Becoming a Data Scientist
4. Building Deep Neural Networks in the Cloud with Azure GPU VMs, MXNet and Microsoft R Server
3. Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 – Free eBook
2. Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio
1. Making R the Enterprise Standard for Cross-Platform Analytics, Both On-Premises and in the Cloud

Read more about the articles here.