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
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Analysis Services Development Comparison of Queries Written in T-SQL and SQL Server MDX
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Analysis Services Development Microsoft Naïve Bayes Data Mining Model in SQL Server Analysis Services
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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
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Application Development Connecting a Java Program to SQL Server
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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
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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
Dates SQL Server Data Aggregation for Data with Different Sampling Rates
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Functions User Defined UDF Create Your Own RANDBETWEEN Function in T-SQL
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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
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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
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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 Integrating SQL Server Data Using Union, Case and Cast in T-SQL
TSQL Min-Max Normalization in T-SQL when the Boundaries are not [0,1]
TSQL Resolving the MERGE statement attempted to UPDATE or DELETE the same row more than once error
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TSQL SQL Server Random Sorted Result Set
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TSQL T-SQL Bitwise Operators in SQL Server
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TSQL Using T-SQL to Perform Decimal Scaling Normalization for SQL Server
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TSQL Using the SQL Server MERGE Statement to Process Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimensions
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