There was a recent discussion in the forums here at SQL Server Central regarding the difficulties presented by the constantly shifting technology landscape. The core question was, how on earth do you master stuff? Especially, how do you master things when they're both new and constantly changing? Honestly, you don't. I mean, you can, but […]
Today Steve wonders what advice you might give someone starting out their career in technology.
As SQL developers, we tend to think of performance tuning in terms of crafting the best table indices, avoiding scalar and table valued functions, and analyzing query plans (among other things). But sometimes going back to the spec and applying some properties of elementary math can be the best way to begin to improve performance of SQL queries which implement mathematical formulas. This article is a case study of how I used this technique to optimize my SQL implementation of the Inverse Simpson Index.
With both personal experience and the real world evidence to back it up, Grant Fritchey says, unequivocally, a well-implemented DevOps process helps the organization. But it's not always easy to bridge a siloed organization, and sometimes organizations adopt DevOps for the wrong reasons.
In this article we cover how to get started with MLflow using Azure Databricks which manages the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
The use of cloud databases is growing, and Azure SQL Database is one of the more popular ones.
Before you alter a database object, you need to understand what other objects will be affected. This article shows how to generate a simple dependency diagram that reveals both those objects that reference the target object, and those referenced by it, and includes foreign key references, column references and all the other details you need.
In this article, Chandra Kudumula shows how to use ML.NET to train a model for predicting costs from an insurance dataset.
Steve has a few thoughts on software development and coding today when working in teams and trying to keep the entire solution in your head.
In this article, we examine how data changes are made against heaps.
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