Bucket Sort Algorithm in Python to Sort a List of Array Values
Learn about how to implement a simple bucket sort algorithm using Python code to sort a list of array values.
2023-01-16
Articles
How to Find Missing Rows in a Table
When someone says, “Find all the rows that have been deleted,” it’s a lot easier when the table has an Id/Identity column. Let’s take the Stack Overflow Users table:
2023-01-16
Using pre-commit to prevent simple mistakes
Git hooks are a useful way of triggering code quality scripts. The pre-commit tool provides us with a way of doing this and tapping into the huge library of scripts already in existence to ensure our code complies with general linting and formatting good practice.
2023-01-13
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Database Sharding to help Improve Performance and Maintenance Tasks
In this article, we will review the benefits and drawbacks of using database partitioning (sharding) to help improve performance and maintenance tasks.
2023-01-13
How to Create a Box and Whisker Plot in Power BI Desktop
In this article, we look at how to build a box and whisker plot chart using Power BI Desktop with a step-by-step walkthrough.
2023-01-13
Translate Text Data using Azure Cognitive Services
Learn the basics of the Text Translation services in Azure Cognitive Services.
2023-01-11
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Subqueries in MySQL
A subquery is a type of query that is embedded—or nested—into a data manipulation language (DML) statement. The subquery itself is typically a SELECT statement, although you can also use a TABLE statement or VALUES statement. Even so, the SELECT statement continues to be the most common choice for subqueries, and that’s the one I focus on in this article.
2023-01-11
Useful Commands for Snowflake Transactions
In this article, we look at how to create transactions when using Snowflake along with several commands specific to working with transactions.
2023-01-11
How to Create a Power BI report using MySQL data
Introduction In this article, we will learn to create a Power BI report using MySQL data. The article will teach us to use the MySQL Workbench (something like the SSMS, but for MySQL). We will do the following in this article. First, we will connect and create a database in MySQL. Secondly, we will create a […]
2023-01-09
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Analyze Azure Cosmos DB data with Synapse Serverless SQL Pools
In this tip, we guide you through the setup of Azure Synapse Link so you can query Azure Cosmos DB data with the Synapse Serverless.
2023-01-09
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
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On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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