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• M lives!

  In 2007 Microsoft announced a program of work under the codename Oslo which was intended to be a modelling technology and if you believed the hype this was going to be a very big initiative within Microsoft. By September 2010 Oslo was effectively dead Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:07 PM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: Data Explorer, M

• Weekend reading – Data Explorer, Quandl, Flatmerge and a SQL Saturday app

  Here are some things that have piqued my interest on the interwebs over the last few days. Parameterized queries and Security in Data Explorer Chris Webb put a post up on the Data Explorer forum asking about parameterizing queries in Data Explorer and Read More... Posted Saturday, March 09, 2013 7:30 PM by jamiet | 2 Comments Filed under: OData, Data Explorer, Open Data, Quandl, Flatmerge, SQL Saturday

• Traversing the Facebook Graph using Data Explorer

  As I mentioned yesterday Microsoft Data Explorer Preview for Excel has hit the streets and one new feature is a built-in adapter for talking to the Facebook Graph API : I’ve been taking it for a spin for today and was quite interested in its capabilities. Read More... Posted Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:16 PM by jamiet | 5 Comments Filed under: linked data, Data Explorer, Graph API

• Data Explorer hits full preview

  A short recap At the PASS Summit 2011 a project that existed as part of the now-defunct SQL Azure Labs was announced – Data Explorer. I posted some initial thoughts at Thoughts on Data Explorer and continued to post some walkthroughs and feedback . Data Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2013 4:49 PM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: Data Explorer

• Querying RSS feed subscriber count on Google Reader using Data Explorer‏

  I have been fiddling about with Data Explorer some more and have built an interesting little mashup that enables one to discover the number of Google Reader subscribers to each RSS feed on SQLBlog.com . Before I show you how its built I'll whet your appetite Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011 9:29 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: Data Explorer

• Data Explorer Feedback part 1

  Earlier today I posted Data Explorer walkthrough – Parsing a Twitter list in which I explained that I have been using Data Explorer for a few weeks now. In that time I have been compiling some feedback for the Data Explorer product team which I was going Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:56 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: Data Explorer

• Data Explorer walkthrough – Parsing a Twitter list

  Yesterday the public availability of Data Explorer, a new data mashup tool from the SQL Server team, was announced at Announcing the Labs release of Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” . Upon seeing the first public demos of Data Explorer at SQL Pass 2011 Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2011 2:40 PM by jamiet | 6 Comments Filed under: twitter, Data Explorer

• Thoughts on Data Explorer

  To my mind the most interesting piece of news to come out of the recent PASS conference was the unveiling of a new SQL Azure Labs project coming from the SQL Server organisation that has the codename "Data Explorer" (not a very imaginitive codename I'm Read More... Posted Monday, October 24, 2011 11:55 AM by jamiet | 5 Comments Filed under: OData, ETL, Data Explorer