Rick Dobson

Rick Dobson
Rick Dobson is an author and an individual trader. He is also a SQL Server professional with decades of T-SQL experience that includes authoring books, running a national seminar practice, working for businesses on finance and healthcare development projects, and serving as a regular contributor to MSSQLTips.com. He has been growing his Python skills for more than the past half decade -- especially for data visualization and ETL tasks with JSON and CSV files. His most recent professional passions include financial time series data and analyses, AI models, and statistics. He believes the proper application of these skills can help traders and investors to make more profitable decisions.

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Rick Dobson is a SQL Server professional with decades of T-SQL experience that includes authoring books, running a national seminar practice, working for businesses on finance and healthcare development projects, and serving as a regular contributor to MSSQLTips.com. He has been a practicing Python developer for more than the past half decade – with a special emphasis for data visualization and ETL tasks with JSON and CSV files. His most recent professional passions include financial time series data and analyses, AI models, and statistics. If you are interested in growing your skills in any of these areas especially as they relate to financial securities, consider visiting his blog at https://securitytradinganalytics.blogspot.com/2023/12/.

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Constraints List Dependencies for SQL Server Foreign Keys
Data Science Data Science with SQL Server for Inferential and Predictive Statistics: Part 2
Data Types Money and Decimal Data Types for Monetary Values with SQL Server
Database Administration SQL Metadata in sys.databases, sys.objects, sys.tables and sys.columns
Database Administration SQL Server Metadata for Stored Procedures, User-Defined Functions and Views
Database Configurations Setup a Workbench Database, Migrate Objects from Production and Modify the Workbench Database
Dates Converting and Using Text Dates as SQL Server Dates
Dates Work around for calculating age using the SQL Server DateDiff function
Encryption Masking Personal Identifiable SQL Server Data
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Python Create Performance Charts in Python for Time Series Data within SQL Server
Python Creating Animated Line Plots with Python
Python Data Engineering a Solution with Python and SQL Server
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Python Displaying Subplots for SQL Server Data with Python and Plotly
Python How to use Python and BeautifulSoup to Screen Scrape a Web Page and Store in SQL Server
Python Import Unstructured Web Content to SQL Server with BeautifulSoup, Python and T-SQL
Python Introducing Python User Defined Functions to SQL Server Professionals
Python Introduction to Python Bar Charts and Line Charts
Python Introduction to Treemap Charts for SQL Server Professionals
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Python Reading and Writing JSON Files with Python
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Python Screen Scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup Code Examples
Python Techniques for Collecting Stock Data with Python
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SQL Server 2016 Execute Python Scripts with Management Studio to Securely Import Data into SQL Server
SQL Server 2016 Import Historical Stock Prices into SQL Server using Python
SQL Server 2016 Installing Python and Running Python Scripts from SQL Server SSMS
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Views Insert and Delete SQL Server Data with Views
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