The Products-Often-Purchased-Together Problem Solved in R
Learn how to analysis products that might be sold together using R and SQL Server.
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A quick search without an index
Alex Chamchourine explains how he managed to find a row in a billion row table without an index.
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A Lightweight, Self-adjusting, Baseline-less Data Monitor
Can data alert us that something is going on, without baselines and thresholds?
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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