My Learning Goals for 2018
A couple of weeks ago, the SQL Server community had their last T-SQL Tuesday of the year – 97th since 2009...
2017-12-26
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Marlon Ribunal - SQL, Code, Coffee, etc.
Book Review: High Performance SQL Server
As SQL Server professionals, we sometimes encounter some issues that we haven’t seen before or have seen already but forgot...
2017-10-03
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Power BI KPI Report: Hospital Charge Data
Update: Just getting started with Power BI? You can download the Power BI Report File for this KPI Report. Please...
2016-02-16
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How Much Hospitals Charge For The Same Type Of Cases?
Update: For the KPI version of this report, please check Power BI KPI Report: Hospital Charge Data
How much hospitals charge...
2016-02-16 (first published: 2016-02-09)
2,211 reads
How to Install Microsoft R Server for Windows
Microsoft R Server, or Revolution R Enterprise (RRE) as it is formally known, for now, is basically a platform for...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
2,990 reads
Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Simple Visualization
This is the third installment of our Getting Started With Power BI Desktop series. The first post is about installation...
2015-08-27
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Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Getting Data
Now that the Power BI Desktop is installed, let’s get some data. As of this writing, Power BI can get...
2015-09-01 (first published: 2015-08-19)
2,630 reads
Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Installation
Power BI is becoming popular for a lot of reasons. Simply put, Power BI is “BI on your fingertips.” Companies looking to...
2015-08-13
1,223 reads
Finding gaps or missing dates in a date range using TSQL
Here’s a quick how-to on returning temporal data set that includes missing dates. Suppose you are tasked to query an...
2015-05-29
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How to resequence column based on numeric prefix using TSQL
Beginning in version 2005, SQL Server is making manipulation of partitioned set of rows easier by using Window Functions (ROW_NUMBER(), aggregate functions...
2015-03-26 (first published: 2015-03-19)
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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