The Hortonworks Hadoop Sandbox download got corrupted the first time. It worked fine the second time. Installation I installed Oracle VirtualBox first. Then, in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, I select the File | Import Appliance... option, selected the HDP_2.4_virtualbox_v3.ova file and clicked Next and Import. A few seconds later, the box was installed, so I … Continue reading Hadoop Follow Up – Hortonworks HDP Sandbox
Month: May 2016
My First Foray into Hadoop
So I have a big dataset (1.7 billion rows) that I want to analyze. I figured, "Hey, Hadoop is all over this Big Data thing, I wonder if I can do a Proof of Concept?" Compiling Hadoop on Windows (Ugh!) So, first, I tried to follow some instructions on how to get the Hadoop source … Continue reading My First Foray into Hadoop
Oops…I Broke the SQL Server
So this happened. In an attempt to give my SQL Server Instance access to more memory, I set the Max Memory to zero, expecting that to mean infinite. No luck, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) set the max memory to 16MB instead and broke the instance. I could not do anything more in SSMS because … Continue reading Oops…I Broke the SQL Server
Undoing Someone Else’s Changes in TFS
Do a google search for "how to check-in another user's changes in TFS" and you will find a couple of pages of MSDN documentation and a whole lot of forum articles questioning how to do this. Unfortunately, there is no UI option to do this, so you must resort to the command-line. Here's the command … Continue reading Undoing Someone Else’s Changes in TFS
Creating User Stories
The 5 W's of an Issue When an issue gets raised in a production environment, a project planning meeting, or a requirements-gathering meeting, we ask the Who, What, When, Where, and Why of the issue to figure out how to solve it. Typically, the Where is implied as "In the System" and the When is … Continue reading Creating User Stories
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