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Differential Privacy
Steve looks at a technique that some think will allow more data to be used in research and training.
Dimensionality Reduction Techniques - PCA, Kernel-PCA and LDA Using Python
Summary In this article, we will be looking at some of the useful techniques on how to reduce dimensionality in our datasets. When we talk about dimensionality, we are referring to the number of columns in our dataset assuming that we are working on a tidy and a clean dataset. When we have many columns […]
Database DevOps: 10 Trends for 2021
What do you think the top 10 Database DevOps trends in 2021 are? Redgate has condensed 3,200 survey responses from IT professionals worldwide into a handy infographic. Discover insights such as the top challenge in improving software delivery performance and the correlation between DevOps adoption and high-performing teams.
SQL Server security – Providing a security model using user-defined roles
Greg Larsen continues his series and shows how user-defined roles roles can control SQL Server security.
Should You Learn R or Python?
Both Python and R have become very popular languages in the last few years, especially among data professionals. Which should you learn or use? Steve has a few thoughts.
SQL Server 2016 - Always Encrypted
Always Encrypted is a new security feature which was introduced in SQL Server 2016. Always Encrypted is a technology to ensure the data stored in a database remains encrypted at all times during SQL Server query processing. Always Encrypted allows clients to encrypt sensitive data, such as credit card numbers and national identification numbers, inside the […]
Creating Idempotent DDL Scripts for Database Migrations
How to write idempotent DDL scripts that Flyway can run several times on a database, such as after a hotfix has already been applied directly to the production database, without causing errors.
Blogs
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Forums
Rethinking How We Approach Assignment Help
Assignments aren’t just tasks to submit—they’re opportunities to build understanding, discipline, and problem-solving skills....
What's new in R 4.6
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Interesting Changes in R
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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