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Interesting Stuff - Week 48, 2022
Chat Photo by: SeventyFour on iStock Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth that has to do with things that interest me: AI/data science data in general data...
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Interesting Stuff - Week 49, 2022
AI Photo by: Thinkhubstudio on iStock Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth that has to do with things that interest me: AI/data science data in general data...
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Interesting Stuff - Week 50, 2022
Holidays Photo by: lavendertime on iStock Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth that has to do with things that interest me: AI/data science data in general data...
View ArticleSQL Server 2019 Extensibility Framework & Java
SQL Server 2019 Extensibility Framework & Java This is a collection of posts about the Java language extensions introduced in SQL Server 2019. In other words, how we can execute Java code from...
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Here you find slide decks from some of my conference talks. SQL Saturday, 2019 A Lap Around SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster: The new release of SQL Server; SQL Server 2019 includes Apache Spark and...
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Blog Post Series Sometimes my blog-posts turns into “mini series” and this is the page where you find what series I have. Series SQL Server R Services Series: A fairly long and finished series of posts...
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About Me I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and I work as a Software Architect Lead at Derivco in Durban, South Africa. Me and the architects in my team design and develop highly performant iGaming...
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Derivco Derivco is a leading developer of software for the online gaming industry. That doesn’t mean however it is a gaming company; no, it is a technology company. In order to stay competitive we have...
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Disclaimer So, this is the usual “stuff” how this is my personal blog, and the views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my employer.
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Install R Packages in SQL Server ML Services Series This is a series of posts about how to install R packages in SQL Server Machine Learning Services. Table of Content Installing R Packages in SQL...
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SQL Server R Services Series TOC Microsoft released SQL Server 2016 mid 2016 and with the release came quite a few new features: Query Store. Temporal tables. JSON support. Other “cool stuff”. Among...
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sp_execute_external_script and SQL Server Compute Context This is a collection of posts about sp_execute_external_script (SPEES) and SQL Server Compute Context (SQLCC). Table of Content...
View ArticleSQL Server 2005 and DMV's
One of the first thing I usually do after having installed a new version of SQL Server is to snoop around at the system tables to see what new tables there are and what they can give me information about.
View ArticleDebugging in SQL Server 2008
As good as SQL 2005 was (well, still are), one disappointment was that you needed Visual Studio if you wanted to debug your stored procedures. Seriously, what was MS thinking when they did that,...
View ArticleAs the saying goes; “It is hard to learn an old dog new tricks”, but… Even though I am a really old dog, I hope I’ll be able to learn a bit about “social networking”, and therefore I created an account...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP
Yesterday I downloaded and installed the August CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2, and today I played around with it for a while. So, what are my impressions?
View ArticleStream and Complex Event Processing from a Relational Guy's Eye
This is a re-post from my previous blog. However, as that blog has now gone to the big blog repository in the sky (or wherever blogs go to when they are no more), I decided to repost this, seeing how...
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