The Products-Often-Purchased-Together Problem Solved in R
Learn how to analysis products that might be sold together using R and SQL Server.
2020-05-19
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Alex Chamchourine
An Introduction to PowerShell for a DBA
An introduction to PowerShell that covers basics alone with some more advanced features. It will walk you through from the very beginning to the writing of a few useful scripts.
2020-05-01 (first published: 2017-12-21)
10,843 reads
A quick search without an index
Alex Chamchourine explains how he managed to find a row in a billion row table without an index.
2020-02-14
7,924 reads
A Lightweight, Self-adjusting, Baseline-less Data Monitor
Can data alert us that something is going on, without baselines and thresholds?
2017-10-13 (first published: 2016-02-23)
4,122 reads
2017-02-21
1,273 reads
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Question of the Day
Adding Defaults
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers