When does it make sense to hire a data science consulting company?
Going into 2019, data science and machine learning is all the hype. Organizations in every industry are starting to realize...
2019-01-06
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Marc Beacom
I’m Speaking – Denver Dev Day Fall 2018
Denver Dev Day Fall 2018 is a free event organized by volunteers and hosted at the Microsoft campus in the DTC. It’s a full day to learn from industry...
2018-10-12
It’s a wrap – SQL Saturday Denver #774
SQL Saturday Denver #774 has come and gone. It’s hard to believe how quick things went – well there were a...
2018-10-12
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Cloud ETL for the Modern Enterprise Workshop
We are introducing a new workshop focused on Cloud ETL. ETL, or Extract, Transfer and Load, is nothing new and...
2018-09-26
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Advance Your Business by Embracing Cloud Technologies
Advance Your Business by Embracing Cloud Technologies In a rapidly shifting economic landscape filled with supposed cost-cutting strategies, no solution...
2018-08-19
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Automating Database Deployment: Part 4 Making Changes Using RoundhousE to Migrate the Database
With the Automating Database Deployment: Part 3 Running RoundhousE post we walked through running a RoundhousE deployment for the first time to create the database and several database objects. Script naming...
2018-02-28
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Automating Database Deployment: Part 3 Running RoundhousE
Now that we have a basic understanding of RoundhousE database deployment from the first two parts of this series let’s get to the good stuff. If you haven't read...
2018-02-21
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Automating Database Deployment: Part 2 Setting Up the RoundhousE Environment
Remember from the introduction that RoundhousE is a command line driven database deployment engine. This article of the series will discuss the deployment flow and the RoundhousE environment, looking...
2018-02-19
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Automating Database Deployment: Part 1 Introduction to RoundhousE
Database Deployment in DevOps One of the many obstacles to database development and DevOps is how to deploy databases consistently and how to automate the process. Database deployments have...
2018-02-12
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AWS EC2 Linux AMI with pyodbc
AWS EC2 Linux AMI with pyodbc, psqlODBC, Microsoft ODBC Drivers Context: Using pyodbc within a small python application to pull tracking data from an Azure SQL Server DB, do...
2018-01-23
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Blogs
A New Word: Ghough
By Steve Jones
ghough – n. a hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled;...
T-SQL Tuesday: Encryption and Data Protection
I have the honour of hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. In case there’s any...
Parameterize your Databricks notebooks with widgets
Widgets provide a way to parameterize notebooks in Databricks. If you need to call...
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ASCII value of certain column is null
When ASCII(Column) is null, what does it represent? Is this some kind of special/control...
Need to output table data into multiple CSV files
Hello, I created the below script to output 999 rows from SQL Server table...
Changing Database page Verify on a Database in an AG
I have a database on SQL 2019 in an Availability Group (AG) and I...
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