Why Does Everyone Have More Friends Than You?
No, the answer isn’t because you’re a DBA. This isn’t a technical post about databases, but rather a discussion of a statistical paradox that I read about recently. Statistics...
2019-10-01
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We Thought That Sean McCown’s SMO Tutorial Was So Good, It Needed To Be A Video In It’s Own Right
Back in February, Sean McCown joined us on the Undercover podcast and presented a brilliant tutorial on the SMO. We thought that it was so good that we’ve decided...
2019-10-01
58 reads
More “Wrong” SQL Server Math – Floating Point Errors
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. Last week we looked at how implicit conversions and datatype precedence can cause SQL Server to output unexpected results (if you aren’t aware of how...
2019-10-01
353 reads
More "Wrong" SQL Server Math - Floating Point Errors
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Last week we looked at how implicit conversions and datatype precedence can cause SQL Server to output unexpected results (if you aren't aware of how it...
2019-10-01
21 reads
More "Wrong" SQL Server Math - Floating Point Errors
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Last week we looked at how implicit conversions and datatype precedence can cause SQL Server to output unexpected results (if you aren't aware of how it...
2019-10-01
15 reads
Weekly reading #27
September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...
2019-10-01
7 reads
Weekly reading #27
September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...
2019-10-01
28 reads
How to connect spark to ms sql server without '[Error] [JvmBridge] java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver'?
“[Error] [JvmBridge] java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver” - unable to connect spark to Microsoft SQL Server.
In spark when you want to connect to a database you use Read() passing in...
2019-10-01
14 reads
How to connect spark to ms sql server without '[Error] [JvmBridge] java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver'?
“[Error] [JvmBridge] java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver” - unable to connect spark to Microsoft SQL Server.
In spark when you want to connect to a database you use Read() passing in...
2019-10-01
428 reads
"Think Like a Certification Exam" at the PASS Career Dev marathon
Join me for my new webinar "Think Like a Certification Exam" at #PASSmarathon taking place on October 10!One of my favorite non-technical presentations to give explains how and why...
2019-10-01
77 reads
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Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
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