Interesting blog posts of the last month

These are a few blog posts I read last month which i found quiet interesting.

Azure SQL 

SQL Database Fundamentals

Introducing Batch Mode Adaptive Joins

Calculate your savings with SQL Server 2016

Auto Generate Your Database Documentation

Resource Manager template reference now available

DEA 2.0 Technical preview: Release Overview – Database Experimentation Assistant: Overview

Azure Data Warehouse: Understanding the DWU, workload management, resource and memory allocation

Top 30 SQL Blogs  Websites for Microsoft SQL Server Administrators

Get ready for SQL Server 2017

Microsoft touts SQL Server 2017 as the first RDBMS with built-in AI

NoSQL

AWS Database Migration Service expands into NoSQL migrations with MongoDB & Amazon DynamoDB support

DocumentDB

DocumentDB NoSQL database security

Visualization

How Microsoft uses Power BI to run its growing cloud business

Getting started with R in SQL Server

Configuring R on SQL Server 2016 

Monitor R Services using Custom Reports in Management Studio

Deep Learning

Microsoft Updates its Deep Learning Toolkit  

Graph

Let’s Talk Graph!

The R Graph Gallery's Top 5 Most Visited Graph Themes

GraphConnect Europe! London here I come

Build a recommendation system with the support for graph data in SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL DB

Data

Dark Data: The hidden billion dollar opportunity

The Data Readiness Strategies of AI start-ups

Book

The Data and Analytics Playbook: Proven Methods for Governed Data and Analytic Quality 1st Edition