GetNumsAB
A brand new, high-performing, "GetNumbers" or "fnTallyTable" function that can be used for defeating RBAR.
2020-07-02 (first published: 2016-03-23)
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Alan Burstein
- Interests: Text Mining, T-SQL, SQL, XML, XSLT, MDX, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Nasty Fast N-Grams (Part 1): Character-Level Unigrams
An article about tally tables, N-Grams and the fastest character-level N-Grams function available today for SQL Server.
2018-11-22 (first published: 2016-06-23)
15,986 reads
Nasty Fast PERCENT_RANK
Alan Burstein discusses a better performning alternative to PERCENT_RANK that works on SQL Server versions 2005+
2018-01-05 (first published: 2016-06-07)
13,103 reads
2017-09-11
1,313 reads
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Distance Metric Algorithms
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