Data Mining Part 39: Azure Machine Learning vs Microsoft Data Mining
In earlier chapters, we talked about the Microsoft Data Mining enemies. We will talk now about Microsoft Azure Machine Learning.
What’s in a name?
When a business does not have an agreed set of definitions for their every day terms slow burning chaos ensues.
STRING_SPLIT() in SQL Server 2016 : Follow-Up #1
Aaron Bertrand follows up on a recent post about the performance of STRING_SPLIT() with a few additional reader-motivated tests.
GUI Enhancement on Instant File Initialization (IFI) in SQL Server 201
Ability to enable Instant File Initialization during the installation of SQL Server 2016.
What Does a DBA Do?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is away. Andy tries to define what a DBA really does in a way that might make sense to others.
Execute Dynamic SQL commands in SQL Server
In some applications having hard coded SQL statements is not appealing, because of the dynamic nature of the queries being issued against the database server. Because of this sometimes there is a need to dynamically create a SQL statement on the fly and then run that command. This can be done quite simply from the application perspective where the statement is built on the fly whether you are using ASP.NET, ColdFusion or any other programming language. But how do you do this from within a SQL Server stored procedure?
Forcing SQL Agent Jobs to Fail When Remote Procedures Timeout
Your SQL Agent Jobs may be silently failing when using Linked Servers.
Install Cumulative Updates
This week Steve Jones recommends installing Cumulative Updates. If you can test them.
Getting started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an obvious first-step towards migrating on-premise organisational data to the cloud. So how do you get started with it? Robert Sheldon provides a simple guide that should provide you with sufficient of the the basics you need to get a SQL Data Warehouse database up and running.
Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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A Quick Second Opinion
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Five Intelligent Query Processing Features in SQL Server 2022 That Quietly Tune Your Workload
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Question of the Day
Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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