Data Governance Policy
What is a Data Governance Policy?
Data governance policy is concerned with how an organization collects, stores, accesses and maintains its...
2016-09-19
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Text Mining Loch Ness Monster Sightings
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Text mining involves pulling root words from text in a system. In...
2016-02-11
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RapidMiner Overview
If you are searching for a data mining solution be sure to look into RapidMiner. RapidMiner is an open...
2016-01-21
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Azure Data Catalog
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Now available in public preview is the Azure Data Catalog. The Data catalog provides an enterprise data repository...
2015-09-08
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SQL Server 2016 Stretch Database
SQL Server 2016 Stretch Database
One of the features in SQL Server 2016 that you will want to explore is the...
2015-08-17
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Machine Learning Data Sets
Machine Learning Data Sets
When starting out with data mining and machine learning you will need to have access to sample...
2015-08-07 (first published: 2015-08-04)
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SQL Server Polybase (2016)
What is SQL Server Polybase?
Coming in SQL Server 2016 is the ability to query relational tables as well as data...
2015-07-20
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HASSUG BI Developer Presentation on 7/14/2015
I presented on how to become a BI developer at the Houston Area SQL Server User Group (HASSUG). This session...
2015-07-19
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Leveraging SQL Server Database Schema
Leveraging SQL Server Database Schema
Data warehouses typically pull data from various sources and combine the data into a common repository....
2015-06-24
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CDO Summit Toronto June 4th
I am presenting the lunch keynote at the Toronto Chief Data Officer Summit on June 4th. My session is on...
2015-05-24
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Question of the Day
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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