Big Data

Great resources for SQL Server DBAs learning about Big Data with these valuable tips, tutorials, how-to’s, scripts, and more.

Title Author Date
NoSQL Data Models – Embedded, Composite Key, Inverted Index, Table Maria Zakourdaev2026-05-20
Big Data Basics – Part 7 – Hadoop Distributions and Resources Dattatrey Sindol2026-05-19
Build a Multi-Node Apache Hadoop Cluster using AWS EC2 Step by Step Nai Biao Zhou2023-12-13
Document Data Store Data Models and Proximity Queries Maria Zakourdaev2022-09-06
Document Database Modeling to Effectively Store and Access the Data Maria Zakourdaev2022-04-01
SQL Server PolyBase Scale-out Group Using Amazon Web Services Pablo Echeverria2021-11-19
Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse Sadequl Hussain2019-03-14
Introduction to PolyBase in SQL Server 2016 – Part 2 Edwin Sarmiento2017-03-09
Use Sqoop to Append SQL Server Data to an Existing HDFS File Dallas Snider2016-11-29
Export from Hadoop File System to a SQL Server Database Table Dallas Snider2016-10-10
Load SQL Server T-SQL Query Results to Hadoop Using Sqoop Dallas Snider2016-09-20
Sqoop Runtime Exception: Cannot Load SQL Server Driver Dallas Snider2016-09-14
Using Sqoop WHERE Argument to Filter Data from a SQL Server Dallas Snider2016-09-07
Use Sqoop to Load Data from a SQL Server Table to a Hadoop Distributed File System Dallas Snider2016-08-29
Introduction to PolyBase in SQL Server 2016 – Part 1 Edwin Sarmiento2015-11-02
Introduction to Azure HDInsight PowerShell Dattatrey Sindol2014-12-05
Getting Started with HDInsight – Part 1 – Introduction to HDInsight Dattatrey Sindol2014-11-26
Big Data Basics – Part 6 – Related Apache Projects in Hadoop Ecosystem Dattatrey Sindol2014-06-20
Big Data Basics – Part 5 – Introduction to MapReduce Dattatrey Sindol2014-05-05
Big Data Basics – Part 4 – Introduction to HDFS Dattatrey Sindol2014-02-28
Big Data Basics – Part 3 – Overview of Hadoop Dattatrey Sindol2014-01-30
Big Data Basics – Part 2 – Overview of Big Data Architecture Dattatrey Sindol2014-01-09
Big Data Basics – Part 1 – Introduction to Big Data Dattatrey Sindol2013-12-26
Compare Big Data Platforms vs SQL Server Derek Colley2013-08-29