How Effective Is Your Data Load Monitoring in SQL and Python?
Learn how you can use monitor your data warehouse load process with Python code and a structured process.
2023-10-06 (first published: 2023-09-20)
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Python
Decision Tree - Credit Card Fraud Detection
Credit card fraud detection is an important application of machine learning techniques, including Decision Trees. The goal is to identify and detect fraudulent transactions and separate them from valid transactions to prevent financial loss and protect user accounts.
2023-09-08
Screen Scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup Code Examples
BeautifulSoup (sometimes referred to as Beautiful Soup library) is one of several widely used screen scraping packages for a web page. It is highly regarded for its ease of use and power.
Screen scraping enables developers to create solutions that permit comparative analyses from all over the internet, such as web applications that look for the best price on an item from many different online stores.
2023-08-25
Python Script to generate test data
Very often there is a need to create test data manually. This script will provide a mix of names that will make more sense rather than randomly generating meaningless names.
2023-09-11 (first published: 2023-08-24)
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Unpivot Data Using Python
This article looks at manipulating data using Python to unpivot data received in a cross tab format.
2023-06-30
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How to Avoid N+1 Queries: Comprehensive Guide and Python Code Examples
This article describes the N+1 problem that we often find when developers use row by row solutions for querying related data in a database.
2023-06-21
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How to Visualize Timeseries Data with the Plotly Python Library
Learn how to use the Plotly library to visualize time series data in Python in this step-by-step article.
2023-06-16
How to Generate Images with AI and Store them in SQL Server using Python and DALL·E
Introduction In this article, we will learn how to generate images with AI. This time we will work with DALL·E. DALL·E is an image generator using AI. You just need to provide a description and DALL·E will generate the image: In this article we will learn these topics: First, we will learn what is DALL·E […]
2023-05-22
3,284 reads
Python 3 Script for Generating SQL Insert Statements from CSV Data
This Python 3 script is designed to take CSV file data pasted into the csv_data variable and generate SQL insert statements that can be used to insert the data into a MySQL database. The script is easy to use and can save you a lot of time when working with large amounts of data.
2023-05-08 (first published: 2023-05-05)
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Creating a Standalone Executable Python Application
We may need to share our Python desktop or console applications with business users or deploy these applications to multiple machines. However, there are some challenges in the delivery of Python applications.
2023-04-24
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Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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