A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
I’m very happy to announce the addition of 6 new books to the Big Book of R collection, which now stands at about 420 books in total!
Thanks to Isabella Velásquez, Emil Hvitfeldt and Metehan GÜNGÖR for their submissions :).
Read on for a link to the updates, as well as to the Big Book of R itself. H/T R-Bloggers.
Comments closedErnst-Georg Schmid makes a comp based on a mass spectrometry database:
As said in the introduction, mass spectrometry is one, if not the tool to identify unknown compounds, to quantify known compounds, and to determine the structure of molecules. But it is a lot of work, and you need reference spectra to compare against.
So, there are curated databases of validated spectra available, like MassBank Japan, MassBank Europe and the NIST mass spectral libraries. Laboratories might also want to store their own libraries for future use.
However, such databases often come in their own formats and with their own retrieval software. If you need to efficiently connect spectra to other data, e.g. chemical structures or genomic data, this calls for central management and a common API.
Read on to see the comparison of the pgvector extension versus built-in functionality with ARRAY.
Koen Verbeeck double-checks the calendar:
That’s right, this is not an April Fool’s Joke! The most anticipated feature of Microsoft Fabric has arrived! I’m not talking about decent CI/CD support, or OneSecurity. Nope, this is all about the ability to create folders in your workspaces! Very important, since Fabric is a centralized SaaS data platform that allows you to create a gazillion different objects, but until now you had now way of actually organizing them.
To give you an idea about how many objects, this is what the filter currently shows (and some items are missing, like Eventhouse):
This is big. Even on a small proof of concept that I worked on, the lack of folders was annoying. On a full project, the pain becomes worse. Granted, it’s in public preview, so it might not be available to everybody right off the bat, but it’s certainly a step in the direction of usefulness.
Comments closedDaniel Hutmacher shares a couple scripts:
Recently, my home ISP has started changing my public IP address. This causes me some headache because I have a couple of Azure Network Security Group rules (think of them as firewall rules) that specifically allow my home IP access to all of my Azure resources. When my home IP changes, those rules have to be updated accordingly.
So I made a PowerShell-based solution to automatically maintain them.
Read on for the process.
Comments closedJose Manuel Jurado Diaz searches for clones:
Some time ago, we encountered a support case where a customer experienced significant delays in updating auto-created and user-created statistics. I would like to share the insights gained from this experience, including the underlying causes of the issue and the potential solutions we identified and implemented to address the problem effectively.
Read on for a demo to set up the scenario and the cause of the problem, as well as how to fix it.
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