A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 2: Linear Regression
An algorithm that starts with the word “regression” seems an unlikely candidate to move forward with this series of self-tutorials...
2013-01-08
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 0.2: How to Dig Out of a Data Mining Cave-In
This third part in my series of self-tutorials in SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM) was delayed for several weeks due...
2013-01-03
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A Trip Down the Rickety Stairway…
I’ve had to delay my series of self-tutorials on data mining for a few weeks following an antibiotic resistant infection...
2012-12-24
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 0.1: Data In, Data Out
In the first of a series of amateur tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), I promised to pull off...
2012-11-28
7,127 reads
A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 0.0: An Introduction to an Introduction
As I mentioned in my column in June, one of the many lessons I learned at the first-ever SQL Saturday...
2012-11-15
5,496 reads
Another Stop-Gap Solution for the SQL Server 2012 Identity Crisis
I haven’t seen this many fake ID’s since I was in college.
Back on April 26, Grant Fritchey (of execution...
2012-10-24 (first published: 2012-10-16)
5,121 reads
A Novel Workaround for an Infamous SSAS Connection Error
For months I’ve been itching to get the latest version of SQL Server, thanks to the addition of new functionality...
2012-08-28
1,882 reads
SQL Saturday in Rochester Exceeds Expectations
After being forced to deliver sour grapes in my last few columns – thanks to some unexpectedly negative experiences with Oracle...
2012-05-29
1,758 reads
Thank God I Chose SQL Server part II: How to Improperly Install Oracle 11gR2
As part of my ongoing effort to teach by bad example and pass on what little I’ve learned about programming...
2012-05-01
3,545 reads
Thank God I Chose SQL Server part I: The Tribulations of a DB2 Trial
My last column, Misadventures in TDE: How to Restore an Encrypted SQL Server Database Completely Wrong, described a comedy of...
2012-03-31
3,666 reads
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Using AI for Git Hooks
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Encoding Strings
I have this code in SQL Server 2025. What is the result?
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