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Big data in practice: Hadoop and Spark, data lakes, streaming and processing data at a scale where the usual tools stop working.

FabCon 2026 Barcelona: Artificial Intelligence Takes Center Stage in Microsoft Fabric

I recently had the opportunity to attend FabCon 2026 in Barcelona, Microsoft’s flagship event dedicated to Microsoft Fabric data, analytics, Artificial Intelligence and and SQL Server. As a Technology Leader data analytics and quality, attending events like FabCon enables staying ahead of the rapidly evolving Microsoft ecosystem and understanding how new innovations can create business value for our customers. This… 

Exploring the Future of Data at SQLBits 2025 in London

I’m looking back on three amazing days of interesting technical insights from the SQLBits event 2025 in London. It’s actually my first time having the pleasure of attending one of Europe’s biggest data platform events and I can sincerely say, that I enjoyed every minute of interesting workshops and sessions all around Data management, Data engineering and analytics with the… 

Oracle Technology Roundtable for Digital Natives – Let’s have a look at AI, Cloud and HeatWave

Yesterday I participated to the Oracle Technology Roundtable for Digital Natives in Zurich. It was a good opportunity to learn more about AI, Cloud and HeatWave with the focus on very trendy features of this product: generative AI, machine learning, vector processing, analytics and transaction processing across data in Data Lake and MySQL databases. It was also great to share… 

SQL Server 2022 – Azure Synapse Link

Why is this feature interesting? The Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022 will enable you to replicate your operational data into Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. Azure Synapse is an enterprise analytics service that accelerates time to insight across data warehouses and big data systems. Azure Synapse brings together the best of SQL technologies used in enterprise data… 

Data Platform Summit 2022 – Analytics at scale with Power BI and Azure Synapse

Introduction Introduction This morning I attended the first part of the pre-conf of the Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 titled “Analytics at scale with Power BI and Azure Synapse” presented by Dave Ruijter. Working a lot with Power BI and gathering experience with Azure Synapse Analytics , I was looking forward to have Dave’s point of view and experience on… 

One day training @ Microsoft Azure Cloud Workshop

Today, with my colleague Christophe, we follow the Microsoft Azure Training Day: Data and Analytics @ Microsoft Zürich (Wallisellen to be exact). After a presentation of SQL Server 2019, we begin with the First Lab about SQL Server 2019 and new features and we going through intelligent query processing, Data Discovery and Classification for personally identifiable information (PII) and General… 

Documentum – FT – FTIntegrity Tool

FTIntegrity is used to verify indexing after migration or to get a status after a normal indexing. The tool is a standalone Java program that verifies all types that are registered in the dmi_registry_table with the user dm_fulltext_index_user. By default, the utility compares the object ID and i_vstamp between the repository and xPlore. In this blog I will share with… 

Some words about SOUG Day in Lausanne

Today I participate to SOUG Day which takes place in Lausanne at the “Centre Pluriculturel et social d’Ouchy”. After a coffee and a welcome speech by Yann Neushaus, Ludovico Caldara and Flora Barriele, the event starts with 2 global sessions: A l’heure du serverless, le futur va-t-il aller aux bases de données distribuées? Franck Pachot makes a comparison between Oracle… 

Pass summit – day 4

Optimizing Multi-Billion Row Tables in Tabular in 2018   I wanted to attend the session moderated by Marco Russo to see his approach of optimizing performance in Tabular model The first thing to understand is how the data is stored and organized in a Tabular model. It is of course using the xVelocity in-memory capabilities with the Vertipac column storage… 

Pass summit – dbi visit day 3

The Microsoft data platform is evolving The third day began with the Keynote help by Rohan Kumar the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data by Microsoft The main message was “Hybrid data platform is the way for the future” and Microsoft is working in this direction. The use of AI and analytic to transform the customer business is also a… 

Pass summit – dbi visit day 1

Designing Modern Data and Analytic Solution in Azure After having explained the pros and cons of Azure and the decision drivers for going to an Azure Architecture, some interesting messages were delivered like the decoupling of the storage and compute aspect on Azure, even if some of services still combine both. Another message that we all know but is essential… 

Hitachi Content Intelligence deployment

Hitachi Content Intelligence (HCI) is a search and data processing solution. It allows the extraction, classification, enrichment, and categorization of data, regardless of where the data lives or what format it’s in. Content Intelligence provides tools at large scale across multiple repositories. These tools are useful for identifying, blending, normalizing, querying, and indexing data for search, discovery, and reporting purposes.…