What is normal? Finding outliers with R
How do you currently set alerting thresholds? What is normal? And more importantly, what is truly abnormal? We will explore these questions.
2017-06-13
1,811 reads
Nick Burns
Combining R and SQL Server to diagnose performance bottlenecks
Using clustering algorithms to analyse index usage data from SQL Server’s DMVs & simplify complex performance investigations.
2017-05-29 (first published: 2015-12-07)
9,879 reads
Using R to Identify Key Features Quickly
Typical BI dashboards display data summaries like counts and averages. We use R to extend on these to identify key associations in a dataset.
2017-01-09
2,338 reads
Beyond prediction with R & SQL Server
Predictive / prescriptive analytics is regarded the highest level of advanced analytics. In this post, we emphasise the importance of exploratory analytics to derive meaningful insight.
2016-08-18
2,198 reads
Adding an Article Without a Full Snapshot
Have you got transactional replication in your SQL environment? Do you need to add a new table to your publication, but can't afford the time necessary to create a full new snapshot? Here is a step-by-step guide. Thankfully, adding a single table is easier than I thought.
2015-01-05
22,066 reads
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No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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