One common theme that stood out last year is the oversupply of data to our fingertips. In my line of work as a data professional, I produce, consume and...
2021-01-12 (first published: 2021-01-05)
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Everyone of us is in a perpetual pursuit of awesomeness - some actively looking for it, while others passively. Either way, it is inherent in our making to reach...
2020-09-11 (first published: 2020-09-06)
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In this article, we will focus on creating a data pipeline to ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Cosmos DB container changes to a SQL Server database. Note that this...
2019-07-21
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Late last year, I wrote a series of articles about Predictive Modeling using R and SQL Server Machine Learning Services. At the time, I thought MLS was an underutilized...
2019-06-17 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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Many people who read my Cosmos DB articles are looking for an effective way to export data to SQL, either on-demand or in real-time. After performing a search term...
2019-05-17 (first published: 2019-05-05)
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The Gartner Magic Quadrant for 2019, announced earlier this month, names Microsoft the leader in Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms....
2019-03-12 (first published: 2019-02-23)
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Microsoft’s Azure Databricks is an advanced Apache Spark platform that brings data and business teams together. In this introductory article,...
2019-02-17
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Global AI Bootcamp, Brisbane 2018
Yesterday, I attended the Global AI Bootcamp Brisbane (at the Precinct, Valley) along with nearly 100 other...
2018-12-16
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Recap!
Part 1 of Predictive Modeling using R and SQL Server Machine Learning Services covered an overview of Predictive Modeling and the...
2018-11-27 (first published: 2018-11-18)
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To R or not to R?
A few months ago, I asked myself an important question – which language to learn first...
2018-11-12
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By Steve Jones
I started a poll today on the naming for future SQL Saturdays. You can...
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
By Arun Sirpal
A quick post today, quite simply, the error message is: “code”: “ConflictingDatabaseOperation”, “message”: “Operation on server x and database y is in progress. Please wait a few minutes before trying again.” What...
Splitting a group up into multiple groups using a score for how many times...
Hi Using dataflows to load data from one SQL table to another (seperate databases;...
Dear all, I have the following questions about SQL Server Always On: How does...
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