Learn how to plot a financial time series using SQL Server data and Python to reveal the value of exponential moving averages and make decisions about time series values.
Communities of practice bring people together to share ideas and learn from each other about a common interest. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains and gives some advice on starting them.
I've recently moved house from Massachusetts to Oklahoma. Long story. Anyway, sitting in my new office looking out at the trees, some of the leaves are starting to change. Ah, Fall. Lovely Autumn colors... WAIT! Actually, something else is going on. Only a few trees are changing color. Word is, we've been a little dry […]
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SSIS stands for SQL Server Integration Services and is a solution for building data integrations and workflow applications that integrate with SQL Server databases. As data integration processes increase in importance, organizations are looking for ways to simplify integration and manage workflows. In this article, we'll walk you through how to design a data flow that adds new HubSpot contacts to a MailChimp list using CData SSIS Components for HubSpot and MailChimp. Connecting to HubSpot and MailChimp The […]
In this article we demonstrate how to transfer data via a CSV file from a SQL Server database to a Pandas dataframe and then subset the dataframe in Python.
This short article shows how to connect to Salesforce data with CData and produce a chart from a query.
The way that AI is used in the world can make it better, but not always. In either case, we ought to have some accountability for the models.
A set of PowerShell cmdlets that will 'diff' two versions of a database and provide a high-level overview of the major database changes made by successive Flyway migrations. You can 'diff' a SQL Server database to the same one on PostgreSQL and find out which objects are the same and which are different.
Dealing with NULL values especially when joining tables can become a challenge. Let's take a look at this issue and how this can be resolved.
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers