Create a Web-Based CRUD Automation Framework with Python
Implement a CRUD automation framework that handles insert and simple queries, an easy way to talk to a database without needing to write any database-access code.
View ArticlePython for the SQL Server DBA
Python is increasingly used by DBAs as a general-purpose scripting language, despite the pressure to adopt Microsoft's PowerShell. They find it easy to learn, powerful, and reasonably intuitive. Here...
View ArticleDo I Need to Learn Linux and R and Python?
The SQL Server platform is growing, but Steve Jones notes that this might not really affect our jobs.
View ArticleThe importance of bringing Python to SQL Server
When SQL Server 2017 launched, Microsoft proudly announced that it was the first relational database engine to ship with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. But why Python and SQL...
View ArticleThe Power of Python and SQL Server 2017
Python is new to SQL Server 2017. It is intended primarily to allow the use of Python-based machine-learning within SQL Server, but it can be used for far more than this, with any Python libraries or...
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Python Dictionaries
How to fix SQL Server disk I/O bottlenecks (without a hammer)In this new article, Simple-Talk editor Tony Davis explains step-by-step how to find and fix the root causes of disk I/O bottlenecks,...
View ArticleImporting Historical Stock Prices from Yahoo Finance into SQL Server
Rick Dobson demonstrate a clean end-to-end solution for importing historical stock ticker prices from Yahoo Finance into a SQL Server table using Python.
View ArticleSQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 1: Python Basics
Python is a very popular language used for many purposes including machine learning. SQL Server 2017 supports Python with its Machine Learning Services component. Robert Sheldon explains how to get...
View ArticleSQL Server 2017 and Python Basics
This tutorial from Siddharth Mehta is intended to help experienced T-SQL Developers, DBAs, Data Analysts and Data Science enthusiasts to start using Python language with T-SQL.
View ArticleSQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 2: Python Data Frames
SQL Server Machine Learning Services provides the ability to run Python scripts directly against data in SQL Server. To do so, you must understand how to work with the data frame object. Robert Sheldon...
View ArticleSQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 3: Plotting Data with Python
One of the advantages of running Python from SQL Server is the ability to create graphics to assist in analysis of data. Robert Sheldon demonstrates matplotlib, a 2D plotting library, widely used with...
View ArticleHistorical Stock Prices and Volumes from Python to a CSV File
Python is a versatile language that is gaining more popularity as it is used for data analysis and data science. In this article, Rick Dobson demonstrates how to download stock market data and store it...
View ArticleThe Learning Choice
R or Python? Or both? Neither? Where should you spend your learning effort?
View ArticleSQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 4: Finding Data Anomalies with...
Python is widely used to analyze data. One such use is to find anomalies or outliers. In this article, Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to create a support vector machine (SVM) to score test data so...
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Python Modules
How to fix SQL Server disk I/O bottlenecks (without a hammer)In this new article, Simple-Talk editor Tony Davis explains step-by-step how to find and fix the root causes of disk I/O bottlenecks,...
View ArticleSQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 5: Generating multiple plots in...
Visualization is often the first step in analyzing data. Python makes visualization easy. In this article, Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to generate multiple charts from one dataset using Python with...
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