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Learning Goals–May Update

Posted on May 30, 2018 by

It’s 5 months in, and this is hard. I find that the time I’ve picked each week sometimes gets bumped by other items, which do have a higher priority. More on this later. Extended Events An epic fail here for … Continue reading →

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Learning Goals–April Update

Posted on April 30, 2018 by

Here is the update: I did better. Extended Events I did a little more multi-tasking this month, ensuring that if I rode the stationary bike for exercise, I had my tablet and watched some Pluralsight or read some content. Here … Continue reading →

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Python Jupyter Notebooks in Azure

Posted on April 18, 2018 by

There’s a new feature in Azure, and I stumbled on it when someone posted a link on Twitter. Apologies, I can’t remember who, but I did click on the Azure Notebooks link and was intrigued. I’ve gotten Jupyter notebooks running … Continue reading →

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Do I Need to Learn Linux and R and Python?

Posted on May 26, 2017 by

The big changes coming in SQL Server 2017 are the Linux version and the addition of Python as a language used to analyze data. In SQL Server 2016, we had the R language added, and quite a few people have … Continue reading →

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Python in SQL Server

Posted on April 20, 2017 by

The Microsoft Data Amp event was this week, with a number of SQL Server announcements. We now know this is going to be called SQL Server 2017, which is no surprise. CTP 2.0 was also released, which includes a few … Continue reading →

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A Python SQL Server App

Posted on December 6, 2016 by

I got a link recently from Microsoft on building apps easily for SQL Server. At the top of the page, they ask you to pick a language and OS. Since I’ve done a little Python and I used Windows, I … Continue reading →

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Advent of Code Day 1, Puzzle B

Posted on January 8, 2016 by

As I continue through the Advent of Code, albeit slowly, I’m solving each puzzle 3 days. I worked through 6 of them in Python before moving on to other languages, and this is my chance to catch up with both … Continue reading →

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Advent of Code

Posted on December 11, 2015 by

I ran across this site after reading a post from Jeremiah Peschka. It’s an interesting idea, and since I’m trying to improve my development skills in between the rest of my work, I thought this would be fun. Advent of … Continue reading →

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Python Command Line Calls

Posted on November 27, 2015 by

There was a time I worked in a company any we lived in the command line. This was in the early 90s, prior to Windows v3.1 being released and we primarily used DOS on a Novell network. We also had … Continue reading →

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Python and Tweepy

Posted on November 20, 2015 by

One of the projects that’s been on my list lately is to programmatically access Twitter for a few ideas I want to play with. Since I’ve been trying to learn some Python, I thought I would take a look using … Continue reading →

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