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		<title>Getting Started with Solr &amp; Carrot2 Clustering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I start a new Solr project I have to remind myself with the basics again, such as setting up &#38; configuring Solr Cores, updating indexes and plugging in projects such as Carrot2&#8217;s classification engine, so I decided to create this post as a reminder of the how to perform the main operations you [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Keyword Stemming and Lemmatisation with Apache Solr</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 11:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started working recently with Apache Solr, and I am hugely impressed, the search technology is very solid and packs many IR, advance search and NLP features out of the box. In this post I will provide an overview of how to setup Keyword Stemming on a field in your Solr core. A stemming filter [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In-Memory (Memory Optimized) Tables in SQL Server 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[SQL Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In-Memory storage technology finally make their debut appearance on the SQL Server 2014&#8217;s BI stack, with the creation of a proper memory optimized tables and stored procedures, unlike the Columnstore feature which offers a read-only memory optimized solution, that does not work overly well in a true transactional environment. In this post I hope to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting SQL Server and Analysis Services to Hadoop Hive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinknook.com/?p=1169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hadoop is a pretty neat set of tools for processing loads of data in a distributed, parallel and easy to scale-out manner, and so rightfully the Hadoop toolset owns a pretty high position in the data analysis and BI game, and a must consider when embarking on any new big data project. But that being [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Studio 2013 Preview is Available for Download</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well its Preview release week at Microsoft, and the new and shiny Visual Studio 2013 is now available for download under multiple editions and with additional VS13 tools. So whats new you ask, well not a lot in terms of look &#38; feel, but they have certainly packed-in a few new features that would appeal [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Ways to Optimize and Improve Performance of your SSIS Package</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title should actually read &#8220;8 Random Ways to Optimise SSIS&#8221;. One of the recent project I have been working on involved building a distributed (scaled-out) SSIS environment, this means multiple VMs with a standalone SSIS (2012 in Package mode) instances installed (so no SQL Server Database Engine), all pushing massive amount of data to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server 2014 CTP is Out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its a RDBMs, no its a ColumnStore, no its a cloud integrated storage platform&#8230; Oh its actually SQL Server 2014! Exciting news as the new (project code-name: Hekaton) SQL Server 2014 is community technology preview (CTP1) is out and can be downloaded and evaluated by the community. There is a host of exciting and long awaited [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Altering Calculations for a Deployed (Live) SSAS Cube</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a pretty simple post to show how to alter (add, remove or edit) a calculated field in an SSAS cube without redeploying the whole project, a useful technique if you do not have the SSAS cube project handy or wish to quickly implement changes on a live cube. In order to edit a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Diagnosing Kerberos Delegation Issues on SQL Server, SharePoint, SSRS and SSAS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, I have found working with Kerberos when setting up a SQL Server stack to be a complete nightmarish experience, mainly due to two reasons: Working with Kerberos usually requires access rights to Active Directory for the account setting up this authentication protocol on the stack, in order to be able to effectively diagnose [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Ways to Visualize Geographical (Location) Data in Excel 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 11:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excel 2013 brings forward an array of new and exciting features at the finger tips of the data analysts, ranging from a shiny new visualization and exploratory data analysis platform (PowerView) to a number of new pivoting features as well as a powerful in-memory data modelling engine (PowerPivot) enabled by default. Among all these features, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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