MySQL 8.0 is generally available with added features
The long awaited general release of MySQL 8.0 was finally announced last week. MySQL, as we all know, is the world’s most popular open...
The trouble with Smart Contracts
The government of Tennessee now officially recognizes Smart Contracts. That’s great news if we speak in terms of the publicity blockchain will receive. By...
Using Azure Durable Functions with Azure Data Factory – HTTP Long Polling from Blog...
(2020-Dec-21) While working with Azure Functions that provide a serverless environment to run my computer program code, I’m still struggling to understand how it actually...
Retrieving Log Analytics Data with Data Factory from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
I’ve been working on a project where I use Azure Data Factory to retrieve data from the Azure Log Analytics API. The query language...
Quick Start to Using Influxdb on Macos from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
Intro
OSS 2.0 is a release candidate at this time, so this may change once it’s released.
It wasn’t quite clear to me how to get...
DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services (preview) from Blog Posts –...
Announced last week is a major new feature for Power BI: you can now use DirectQuery to connect to Azure Analysis Services or Power...
Would You Pass the SQL Server Certifications Please? What Do You Mean We’re...
I have held various certifications through my DBA career, from CompTIA A+ certification back when I worked help desk (I'm old) through the various...
Error: 8623 – The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not...
Unfortunately a common error in many of our client environments is this:
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Error: 8623, Severity: 16, State: 1.
The query processor ran out of internal resources...
Data Architecture Blog Post: CI CD in Azure Synapse Analytics Part 1 from Blog...
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while. I've got a new blog post over on the Microsoft Data Architecture Blog on using...
Splitting up the Mission of PASS from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
Following up on Should There Be A Successor to PASS? I have a couple more thoughts. One of the many complaints about PASS over the...
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Learn Transformers for Natural Language Processing with Denis Rothman
Key takeaways
The transformer architecture has proved to be revolutionary in outperforming the classical RNN and CNN models in use today.
Artificial intelligence is...
