New Microsoft Sandbox Uses Natural Language LLMs for SQL Queries

Decision Tree - Credit Card Fraud Detection

Credit card fraud detection is an important application of machine learning techniques, including Decision Trees. The goal is to identify and detect fraudulent transactions and separate them from valid transactions to prevent financial loss and protect user accounts.

Alternatives To SQL Server 2022 Built-in function GREATEST

If you haven’t already heard, SQL Server 2022 introduced a new built-in system function called GREATEST. Simply put, it is to a set of columns, variables, expressions etc. what the MAX function is to a set of values (i.e., rows) of a single column or expression.

SQL Athena Introduction - How it works, Use Cases and Advantages

Learn about Amazon Athena, how it works, why you would use it, and some of the advantages of Athena over traditional relational databases.

Power BI Workspace Permissions and Roles

What are the Power BI workspace permissions and roles and how are they used?

Analyze and Tune SQL Server Statistics

Over the years, SQL Server Statistics have been discussed in countless blog posts, articles, and presentations, and I believe that they will remain a core topic for a while when speaking about performance. Why is that?

New Amazon X2iedn High-Memory Instances

Amazon just announced new X2iedn instance types for Amazon RDS SQL Server. They’re a sweet deal for people who want a high-performance managed database, with really fast cores and more memory per core than you can get in Azure’s managed SQL offerings.

PostgreSQL 101: A guide to PostgreSQL documentation & useful resources

In the latest webinar of our PostgreSQL 101 series, join Ryan Booz, PostgreSQL Advocate at Redgate, and Grant Fritchey, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and discover:

How to navigate PostgreSQL documentation
The essential things you need to know about PostgreSQL documentation
Other useful learning resources to help make your journey to using PostgreSQL easier

Please register to watch the recording.

Getting Started with Power Query M Language in Excel

This article introduces M language concepts and examples of using M to manipulate data in Excel.

Post-migration Validation and Optimization Guide

SQL Server post migration step is very crucial for reconciling any data accuracy and completeness, as well as uncover performance issues with the workload.