Dallas Snider

Dallas Snider
Dr. Dallas Snider is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of West Florida and has 18+ years of SQL experience.

Dr. Dallas Snider is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of West Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Integrated Computing and M.S. in Instrumental Sciences from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He received a B.A. in Physics from Hendrix College. Before joining UWF, he worked as a data warehouse developer for Northrop Grumman Information Systems and prior to that as a database application developer for Acxiom and Euronet. Dr. Snider’s teaching and research interests include data mining, data warehousing, information visualization, and software development.
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Analysis Services Administration Configuring the Analysis Services Processing Task in SQL Server 2012 Integration Services
Analysis Services Development A Quick Way to Start Learning SQL Server MDX
Analysis Services Development Binning SQL Server Data to Reduce Column Cardinality
Analysis Services Development Classic Machine Learning Example In SQL Server Analysis Services
Analysis Services Development Comparison of Queries Written in T-SQL and SQL Server MDX
Analysis Services Development Connecting WEKA to SQL Server 2016
Analysis Services Development Data Mining Clustering Example in SQL Server Analysis Services SSAS
Analysis Services Development Explaining the Calculations of Probability and Importance for Complex Association Rules in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services
Analysis Services Development Explaining The SQL Server 2014 Analysis Services Data Mining Model Lift Chart
Analysis Services Development How to handle the MAXIMUM_STATES warning message in the SSAS Neural Network Data Mining Model
Analysis Services Development Interpreting the SQL Server Analysis Services Classification Matrix
Analysis Services Development Introduction to the SQL Server Analysis Services Logistic Regression Data Mining Algorithm
Analysis Services Development Introduction to the SQL Server Analysis Services Neural Network Data Mining Algorithm
Analysis Services Development Microsoft Naïve Bayes Data Mining Model in SQL Server Analysis Services
Analysis Services Development SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services Association Rules Data Mining Example
Analysis Services Development SQL Server Analysis Services MDX Average Calculation
Analysis Services Development Testing KPIs for SQL Server Analysis Services
Analysis Services Dimensions Change Sort Options on Dimension Attributes in SQL Server Analysis Services
Analysis Services Dimensions Defining Role Playing Dimensions for SQL Server Analysis Services
Analysis Services Measure Groups Using MDX to Calculate Both Values and Percentages for Analysis Services
Analysis Services Performance SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services Partitioning Performance Demonstration
Analysis Services Performance SQL Server Analysis Services Query Response Comparison by Storage Mode
Analysis Services Tutorials Introduction to the SQL Server Analysis Services Linear Regression Data Mining Algorithm
Application Development Connecting a Java Program to SQL Server
Application Development Inserting Rows into SQL Server from a Java Program
Big Data Export from Hadoop File System to a SQL Server Database Table
Big Data Load SQL Server T-SQL Query Results to Hadoop Using Sqoop
Big Data Sqoop Runtime Exception: Cannot Load SQL Server Driver
Big Data Use Sqoop to Append SQL Server Data to an Existing HDFS File
Big Data Use Sqoop to Load Data from a SQL Server Table to a Hadoop Distributed File System
Big Data Using Sqoop WHERE Argument to Filter Data from a SQL Server
Compression SQL Server 2012 Partitioned Index Compression Comparison
Data Types Precision and Scale Impact for SQL Server Data Types
Data Types SQL Server Performance Test for Bit Data Type in a WHERE Clause
Data Types T-SQL Bitwise Operators in SQL Server
Dates SQL Server Data Aggregation for Data with Different Sampling Rates
Encryption How much overhead does encryption add to a SQL Server query
Functions System Min-Max Normalization in T-SQL when the Boundaries are not [0,1]
Functions System Select min and max values along with other SQL Server columns using T-SQL
Functions User Defined UDF Create Your Own RANDBETWEEN Function in T-SQL
Functions User Defined UDF SQL Server T-SQL Code to Calculate a Moving Average
Functions User Defined UDF Video on how to create your own RANDBETWEEN function for SQL Server
In Memory OLTP Quick Guide to Installing SQL Server 2014
Integration Services Analysis Services Tasks Introduction to the Dimension Processing Destination in SSIS 2012
Integration Services Control Flow Transformations Case Statement Functionality in SQL Server Integration Services Derived Column Transformation
Integration Services Control Flow Transformations Configure the SQL Server Integration Services For Loop Container
Integration Services Excel Configure the Flat File Source in SQL Server Integration Services 2012 to read CSV files
Integration Services Security SFTP in SQL Server Integration Services Package with Bitvise
JOIN Tables How to Join to the Same Table Multiple Times for a SQL Server query
JOIN Tables Integrating SQL Server Data Using Union, Case and Cast in T-SQL
Professional Development Career Planning Starting as a SQL Server Business Intelligence Developer
Reporting Services Development Plotting a Bell Curve in SQL Server Reporting Services
Reporting Services Development Resolving the Maximum Request Length Exceeded Exception in SQL Server Reporting Services
Reporting Services Formatting Create a Greenbar Report in SQL Server Reporting Services
Reporting Services Formatting Remove Question Mark and Show Correct Total Number of Pages in SSRS Report
Reporting Services Formatting SQL Server Reporting Services Expression Builder to Reformat or Convert Text Box Values
Reporting Services Security Determining who is viewing reports in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services
Reporting Services Security SQL Server Reporting Services Report Manager Site Permissions Error After Installation
Security Generating A Password in SQL Server with T-SQL from Random Characters
Security Generating a Password in T-SQL from a Table of Words
Testing Install Your Own Copy of the SQL Server AdventureWorks2014 Database
Testing SQL Server T-SQL Code to Generate A Normal Distribution
Triggers Beware of Logic Errors in your T-SQL Triggers
Triggers Create a Simple SQL Server Trigger to Build an Audit Trail
Triggers SQL Server Trigger After Update for a Specific Value
TSQL A More Versatile SQL Server Random Number Function
TSQL Advice for Learning T-SQL SELECT Statement Step By Step
TSQL Avoiding erroneous results when using T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server 2012
TSQL Calculating the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient in T-SQL
TSQL Resolving the MERGE statement attempted to UPDATE or DELETE the same row more than once error
TSQL Script to Capture Performance Stats When Testing SQL Server T-SQL Statements
TSQL SQL Server Min Max Column Normalization for Data Mining
TSQL SQL Server Random Sorted Result Set
TSQL SQL Server T-SQL Code to Return Consecutive Values Over a Certain Value
TSQL Transforming Cartesian Coordinates to Spherical Coordinates in SQL Server with T-SQL
TSQL Use a CrossJoin to Calculate Multiple Pearson Correlation Coefficients in T-SQL
TSQL Using T-SQL to Perform Decimal Scaling Normalization for SQL Server
TSQL Using T-SQL to Perform Z-Score Column Normalization in SQL Server
TSQL Using the SQL Server MERGE Statement to Process Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimensions
Upgrades and Migrations Quick Guide to Upgrading to SQL Server 2014
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