Understanding Machine Learning
This article describes about the understanding Machine Learning and bits of Artificial Intelligence as it’s a superset of Machine Learning.
Streamlining a Power BI Solution
Power BI is an excellent tool for departments or small organisations getting started with their BI solution. Unless some time is spent organising the solution, however, it can become cluttered. In this article, Gogula Aryalingam explains how to streamline the solution to keep it organized and efficient.
The Sins of SELECT * (BP005)
If Prompt warns you of use of the asterisk, or 'star' (*), in SELECT statements, consider replacing it with an explicit column list. It will prevent unnecessary network load and query performance problems, and avoid problems if the column order changes, when inserting into a table.
Exporting Custom Messages from Sys.Messages
Learn how to get your custom messages from an existing instance and add them to a new instance.
Are your CPU-intensive queries running slowly? Check your VM type.
When you build a VM for SQL Server in Amazon EC2, Azure VMs, or Google Compute Engine, it’s all too easy to overlook the CPU speeds that you’re getting. Brent Ozar explains when to stop and check the VM type you used when building this VM.
Six reasons to version control your database
For application developers it is unthinkable to work without version control. Yet, only 55% of database developers are version controlling their database changes? Mary Robbins provides six reasons why you should version control your database.
Burning Out
Burning out in an IT job is easier to do than it should be. Steve has a little advice today.
Setup SSIS Catalog Retention Policy and Partial Cleanup Strategy
Learn how you can configure clean and size management for your SSIS catalog database.
Using Parameters with Stored Procedures
It seems that SQL Server developers avoid stored procedures whenever possible, especially if they are new to the product. Kathi Kellenberger brings us a basic article that you can give to developers that explains the basics of how you use parameters with ADO.NET, especially output parameters.
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SSoL Support on the OS
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