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Web Scraping with Python Scrapy Framework

Learn how to build a web scraping tool using the Python Scrapy Framework and a step-by-step walkthrough of how to do this.

Troubleshoot Chained SQL Server CTE

This article will explore how SQL Server chained CTEs might make troubleshooting code harder and whether you should stop using CTEs altogether.

Explore Pandas in Python to Analyze and Manipulate Tabular Data

Learn how to use Pandas an open-source library for analyzing and manipulating tabular data in Python along with several examples.

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PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL VACUUM, AUTOVACUUM, and ANALYZE Processes for Deleted Data

PostgreSQL has a unique way of dealing with deletes and in this article, we look at the concepts of VACUUM, AUTOVACUUM, and ANALYZE.

Security

Audit SQL Server Extended Stored Procedures Usage

In this article, we look at how to audit and monitor the use of SQL Server extended stored procedures in your database instance.

Application Development

Getting Started with Kiota for Building API Clients

Learn how to build an API using Microsoft Kiota and how popular programming languages like Python can be used to write the API.

Application Development

Implement Microservices with Ocelot API-Gateway in .NET

Learn how to build a microservice using the Ocelot API-Gateway in .NET in this step-by-step article.

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning Introduction: KNN Model

This tip will introduce and implement the K-Nearest Neighbors model in Python to give you a better understanding of how machine learning works.

TSQL

Optimize SQL LIKE Wildcard Searches

Learn about different ways to improve the performance of full wild card text searches to find strings in SQL Server tables.

SQL Server Agent

SQL Server Agent Job History Retention Settings

This article looks at how to change SQL Server Agent history retention using SQL Server Management Studio GUI and T-SQL scripts.

Azure Databricks

What is Databricks?

Learn about the Databricks ecosystem: Dataframes, Spark SQL, SQL Warehouse, Streaming Data, Graph Query Language, and Machine Learning.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbot with Message History using LangChain and SQL

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a message history and a UI for a LangChain chatbot application.

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Learn about SQL SSMS Ports for SQL Server

Python

Introduction to Creating Interactive Data Visualizations with Python matplotlib in VS Code

In this tip, we present a step-by-step guide on how to present your data interactively using matplotlib and Python in VS Code.

Install and Uninstall

How to install SQL Server 2022 step by step

In this article, we cover how to install SQL Server 2022.

Power BI Charts

How to Create a Box and Whisker Plot in Power BI Desktop

In this article, we look at how to build a box and whisker plot chart using Power BI Desktop with a step-by-step walkthrough.

Tutorial

SQL Server Index Tutorial Overview

This tutorial will try to go through each type of index available in SQL Server and explain why/when each one could be used to improve your query perf

Tutorial

SQL Server Spatial Indexes

In this section we look at another type of SQL Server index, spatial indexes.

Tutorial

Analyze Windows Performance Monitor Counters Using PerfMon

In this section we look at how to use perfmon to display charts and reports for collected data.

Whitepaper

Secrets to Fast, Easy High Availability for SQL Server in Amazon Web Services

Learn how to quickly build a two-node HA cluster for SQL Server in the AWS cloud.

Webcast

Preparing for Disaster: Outage-Proofing SQL Server

Cloud outages will happen, but the good news is that you can safeguard your SQL Server environment by planning ahead.

Webcast

Easily Create Non-Sensitive Copies of Production Databases

Learn how to obfuscate sensitive data and personally identifiable information (PII), all while ensuring the data remains useful for testing and analys