A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 10.2: DMX DML
by Steve Bolton
The three introductory posts in this series of self-tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM) and the...
2013-03-26
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 10.1: DDL with DMX
by Steve Bolton
As users become more familiar with software, they typically follow a progression that begins with learning the...
2013-03-14 (first published: 2013-03-11)
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 9: Time Series
by Steve Bolton
The data mining method known as Time Series is aptly named, because it seems to take a...
2013-02-26
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 8: Sequence Clustering
by Steve Bolton
In last week’s edition of this amateur series of self-tutorials[i] on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), we...
2013-02-21
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 7: Clustering
by Steve Bolton
In last week’s installment of this amateur series of self-tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), we...
2013-02-19 (first published: 2013-02-12)
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 6: Association Rules
by Steve Bolton
In last week’s installment of this series of self-tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), we covered...
2013-02-07
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 5: The Neural Network Algorithm
by Steve Bolton
Anyone who has been following this series of self-tutorials has probably grown accustomed to me adding some...
2013-01-30
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 4: Logistic Regression
by Steve Bolton
In the last installment of this series of self-tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), A Rickety...
2013-01-23
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 3: Decision Trees
by Steve Bolton
This series of self-tutorials is an elementary-level introduction to SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), not the product...
2013-01-16
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 1: Not-So-Naïve Bayes
Thankfully, the simplest of SQL Server’s algorithms is not quite as naïve about data mining as I am.
As mentioned...
2013-01-09 (first published: 2013-01-04)
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UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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