Data Platform week in review – November 14, 2016 | Azure Blog

This is the first edition of Data Platform Week in review covering Cortana Intelligence Suite, SQL Server and R Server.

Upcoming Events:

Connect(); is back for the third year in a row and will be livestreaming globally from New York City starting November 16.

Blogs:

We published over 30 blogs recently in 25 different blog sites for Data Platform across Azure, MSDN and TechNet to cover the rich portfolio of Microsoft Data platform products

#	Blog Title	Products & Services
1	Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ Session on Big Data & Analytics	Big Data & Analytics
2	9 Things You Should Do To Optimize HBase Performance in HDInsight	Big Data: HDInsight
3	Announcing the Winners – Women’s Health Risk Assessment Competition	Azure Machine Learning
4	Connected Drones: 3 Powerful Lessons We Can All Take Away	Azure Deep Learning
5	New Additions to the Data Science Virtual Machine – Test Drive, Community Forums, Deep Learning	Data Science VM
6	Introducing Custom Modules in the Cortana Intelligence Gallery	Cortana Intelligence
7	Azure DocumentDB updates: quick start experience, backup and restore, and firewall support	Azure Document DB
9	.Net 4.6.2. Framework client driver for Always Encrypted resulting in intermittent failures to decrypt individual rows	SQL Server 2016
10	Microsoft Azure SQL Database provides unparalleled performance with In-Memory technologies	Azure SQL DB
11	Oops Recovery with Temporal Tables	SQL Server 2016
12	How bwin is using SQL Server 2016 In-Memory OLTP to achieve unprecedented performance and scale	SQL Server 2016
13	Columnstore Index: Why do I need to create clustered columnstore Index on In-Memory OLTP- tables for Analytics?	SQL Server 2016
14	In-Memory OLTP: Is your database just in memory or actually optimized for memory?	SQL Server 2016
15	Columnstore Index: Which Columnstore Index is right for my workload?	SQL Server 2016
16	Columnstore index: Why do we refer to it as In-Memory Analytics?	SQL Server 2016
17	Community contributions to the PowerShell scripts for Reporting Services	SQL Server 2016
18	Introducing List view for managing your reports	SQL Server Reporting Services
19	SQL Server 2016 improvements for SAP (BW)	SQL Server 2016
20	Migrating SAP workloads to SQL Server just got 2.5x faster	SQL Server 2016
21	.Net 4.6.2. Framework client driver for Always Encrypted resulting in intermittent failures to decrypt individual rows	SQL Server 2016
22	Announcing SQL Server Management Studio -16.5 Release	SQL Server 2016
23	Because it's Friday: Current Status	R Server
24	A computer vision challenge: finding boats in the Mona Lisa	R Server
25	Airbnb grows by sharing data scientist knowledge	R Server
26	How Did the Pollsters Get It So Wrong?	R Server
27	Data Manipulation at Scale with Microsoft R Server & Spark on Azure HDInsight	R Server
28	RStudio v1.0 released	R Server
29	Because it's Friday: We went all the way!	R Server
30	Update to dplyrXdf: subsetting, column extraction operators	R Server
31	A look back at the Cubs and Indians performance	R Server
32	A Bayesian election prediction, implemented with R and Stan	R Server
33	glmnetUtils: quality of life enhancements for elastic net regression with glmnet	R Server
34	R 3.3.2 now available	R Server

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