May 19, 2016 at 2:58 am
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.
Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
May 19, 2016 at 4:29 am
jasona.work (5/18/2016)
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May 19, 2016 at 4:30 am
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Tell me, is this (third post) just fixing the symptom, not the problem?
That's an awful lot of work just to avoid transaction log backups.
May 19, 2016 at 4:32 am
GilaMonster (5/19/2016)
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Is R a language?
May 19, 2016 at 5:25 am
TomThomson (5/18/2016)
jasona.work (5/18/2016)
I'd honestly expect smaller businesses to be the ones that will take longer to move to automation like this, for several reasons. One would be the most obvious, the manpower issue. If you've got two server / network / storage / database / domain / DNS / DHCP / phone system admins, letting them take the time to set up some sort of monitoring / automation solution doesn't *look* like effective use of their time.I disagree totally. I've been there deciding what to do, as top manager (Tech Director and Temporary acting CEO) in a small business and gone for monitoring and automation. Before that I had sold that idea to the then CEO (an accountant with a Harvard MBA) and he had no problem with grasping those ideas. So my take is that neither technical people (me) nor absolutely non-technical people (that CEO) have any problem with accepting automation as a means to reduce problems - including costs.
Another reason would be the cost of the products that would accomplish the monitoring automation. Using a previous employer as an example, it was felt that the cost of a "off the shelf" SQL backup solution that offered all the features they thought they'd need was too much (RedGate SQL Backup, FWIW,) so the powers-in-charge decreed instead using an open-source solution. Which took more time to get working as needed, means that the only available support is Google, means that when it didn't work as expected the end-users called my employer for help (tying up a support tech,) etc.
My experience tells me that I can gain very great advantages by the sort of automation that I can implement for trivial costs using internal resources and not buying anything. Of course there can be systems with enormous complexity where one might need to buy tools, but my reaction in such cases is to buy the tools because that's obviously going to be cheapest at the end of the day. Yes, some managers are idiots (actually many of the managers I've known) but by no means all, and most will go for automation when it's properly expained to them.
I called out what I think is one of the important bits of your comment.
I think I've had the misfortune of working for one of those managers. Thankfully my new manager is OK with just about anything that can improve the efficiency of the team (which means once we finish migrating to Server 2012 / SQL2014, I'm going to start the process to get SQL Monitor for the servers!)
May 19, 2016 at 6:08 am
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
GilaMonster (5/19/2016)
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Is R a language?
Yes. Geared towards data analysis. 2016 SQL Server can use it.
May 19, 2016 at 6:15 am
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
GilaMonster (5/19/2016)
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Is R a language?
The R Project for Statistical Computing[/url]
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May 19, 2016 at 6:23 am
Greg Edwards-268690 (5/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
GilaMonster (5/19/2016)
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Is R a language?
Yes. Geared towards data analysis. 2016 SQL Server can use it.
YIKES. Yet another skill I have to learn to stay relevant... THERE ARE SO MANY!
Good thing my campus has a lagoon I can go jump in. Maybe the gator will do me a favor and release me from my misery. @=)
May 19, 2016 at 6:30 am
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
Greg Edwards-268690 (5/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
GilaMonster (5/19/2016)
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Is R a language?
Yes. Geared towards data analysis. 2016 SQL Server can use it.
YIKES. Yet another skill I have to learn to stay relevant... THERE ARE SO MANY!
Good thing my campus has a lagoon I can go jump in. Maybe the gator will do me a favor and release me from my misery. @=)
Nah, got a less painful way, but you'll have to wait about 9 months...
Visit this quaint little town, put on your favorite swimsuit and start walking north until you find open water to jump in...
I've heard it's either just like going to sleep, or the cold hits you so hard you have a fatal heart attack...
May 19, 2016 at 6:37 am
Am I missing something here? Why is there a MySQL article as the headliner on a SQL Server website? Not attacking, just curious.
May 19, 2016 at 7:46 am
Greg Edwards-268690 (5/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
GilaMonster (5/19/2016)
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Is R a language?
Yes. Geared towards data analysis. 2016 SQL Server can use it.
And here I was thinking that it was a language for pirates. 😀
May 19, 2016 at 7:47 am
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
Greg Edwards-268690 (5/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
GilaMonster (5/19/2016)
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Is R a language?
Yes. Geared towards data analysis. 2016 SQL Server can use it.
YIKES. Yet another skill I have to learn to stay relevant... THERE ARE SO MANY!
Learning R is not the hard part. Learning the statistical methods and data science to use it effectively, that's the hard part.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
May 19, 2016 at 8:01 am
jasona.work (5/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
Greg Edwards-268690 (5/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
GilaMonster (5/19/2016)
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Is R a language?
Yes. Geared towards data analysis. 2016 SQL Server can use it.
YIKES. Yet another skill I have to learn to stay relevant... THERE ARE SO MANY!
Good thing my campus has a lagoon I can go jump in. Maybe the gator will do me a favor and release me from my misery. @=)
Nah, got a less painful way, but you'll have to wait about 9 months...
Visit this quaint little town, put on your favorite swimsuit and start walking north until you find open water to jump in...
I've heard it's either just like going to sleep, or the cold hits you so hard you have a fatal heart attack...
Ok, that's a little morbid but it made it made my morning. :hehe:
May 19, 2016 at 8:01 am
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
Greg Edwards-268690 (5/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
GilaMonster (5/19/2016)
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Is R a language?
Yes. Geared towards data analysis. 2016 SQL Server can use it.
YIKES. Yet another skill I have to learn to stay relevant... THERE ARE SO MANY!
Good thing my campus has a lagoon I can go jump in. Maybe the gator will do me a favor and release me from my misery. @=)
Dabbled in it a bit. Although how much someone would use it depends on how you analyze data.
Mean, Median, Mode, Std Dev on a group of data and plot it out?
If that is how your users look at data today you might want to look closer at it.
If they are just looking at counts of late orders per customer and why they were late at the detail level, not as critical.
Data Scientist and R seem to be becoming buzz words for HR.
Although in many cases, is somewhat like the DBA's being interviewed by some.
Probably something many should take a look at, as it does make quick work of running some statistical scenarios on a group of data easy.
May 19, 2016 at 8:17 am
yb751 (5/19/2016)
jasona.work (5/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
Greg Edwards-268690 (5/19/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/19/2016)
GilaMonster (5/19/2016)
Lynn Pettis (5/18/2016)
Found this on my Facebook newsfeed: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/data-week-2016.Oooh. Am very tempted to grab both the R and the Data bundles.
The free book yesterday (Machine Learning with R) was one of the first ML books I bought, very good.
Is R a language?
Yes. Geared towards data analysis. 2016 SQL Server can use it.
YIKES. Yet another skill I have to learn to stay relevant... THERE ARE SO MANY!
Good thing my campus has a lagoon I can go jump in. Maybe the gator will do me a favor and release me from my misery. @=)
Nah, got a less painful way, but you'll have to wait about 9 months...
Visit this quaint little town, put on your favorite swimsuit and start walking north until you find open water to jump in...
I've heard it's either just like going to sleep, or the cold hits you so hard you have a fatal heart attack...
Ok, that's a little morbid but it made it made my morning. :hehe:
There's a quote in a book I've got, on Great Lakes Shipwrecks, that Lake Superior has two states:
Frozen ice
Liquid ice
Having been up there (Whitefish Point) before and felt the water (in July,) I would agree with that! A diver I knew had gone up there before diving in the summer, and even then it was drysuit diving, a wetsuit wouldn't be enough...
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