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Building Your First Microsoft SQL Server Big Data Cluster 2019

This course will teach you what Microsoft SQL Server Big Data Clusters are, how to install them, and how to use them. You will also take a look at the underlying technologies and tools.

Ben Weissman - Pluralsight course - Building Your First Microsoft SQL Server Big Data Cluster 2019
by Ben Weissman

What you'll learn

Big Data Clusters are an amazing new technology introduced in SQL Server 2019 bringing together data virtualization, querying file based data using T-SQL and Spark, scaling out for data marts, and state-of-the-art machine learning and AI technologies. In this course, Building Your First Microsoft SQL Server Big Data Cluster 2019, you'll learn the fundamentals of Big Data Clusters. First, you'll explore what Big Data Clusters are and how they can help you solve real-life use cases. Then, you'll learn about the underlying technology stack that is required to run Big Data Clusters as this is different from a traditional SQL Server Deployment. Finally, you'll bring these two together to understand how to deploy and work with a Big Data Cluster. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters needed to establish SQL Server as your central Data Hub.

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About the author

Ben Weissman - Pluralsight course - Building Your First Microsoft SQL Server Big Data Cluster 2019
Ben Weissman

Ben Weissman has been working with SQL Server since SQL Server 6.5, mainly in the BI/Datawarehousing field. He is a Data Platform MVP, author and speaker at data events around the world.

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