Expensive CPUs
Adding non-core database features to a system can expand its capabilities, but it can also be an expensive use of your hardware and software licenses.
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Machine Learning Services (MLS)
Data Prediction with SQL Server Machine Learning Services, Python, and Linear Regression
Lean how to implement linear regression in SQL Server by running Python code on your data in SQL Server using Machine Learning Services.
2024-08-19
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Fixing MLS Python Services to Load the Runtime
Recently I went to work on a SQL Server 2017 instance and couldn't get the Python runtime to load. I'd keep getting this error: A strange error for me to see, and one that didn't quite make sense. How can the runtime not launch? However, restarting the instance still resulted in this error: Msg 39021, […]
2019-10-24
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Writing R Code in SQL Server - Level 3 of the Stairway to Machine Learning Services
In this level, learn about how to get the tools needing for coding in R and how to execute some code that connects to SQL Server.
2019-05-06
5,595 reads
A Quick Start to Running Python Code in SQL Server
With the addition of Python to Machine Learning Services in SQL Server 2017, you can now execute your Python code inside of SQL Server.
2020-11-13 (first published: 2019-04-18)
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2018-05-24
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2018-04-26
657 reads
Stairway to Machine Learning Services
This is a series designed to help you learn more about Machine Learning Services using both R and Python. We will cover the architecture, installation, configuration, and use of Machine Learning Services to run complex analysis on your data.
2018-04-25
4,380 reads
SQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 5: Generating multiple plots in Python
Visualization is often the first step in analyzing data. Python makes visualization easy. In this article, Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to generate multiple charts from one dataset using Python with SQL Server Machine Learning Services.
2018-03-02
3,557 reads
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Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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