A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
In this video, I get past two-class classification and explain how things differ in the multi-class world.
What’s really interesting is that, in many cases, when it comes to code, the answer is “not much.” That’s because libraries like scikit-learn do a lot to smooth over differences between single-class and multi-class classification. But there are still differences that can bite you if you don’t understand how the cases differ.
Comments closedDustin Vannoy has a new video:
This post and video is covering some specific examples people have brought up when defining their Databricks Asset Bundles. The video includes a bit of review, but for more introduction please see my first post on Databricks Asset Bundles. The github repository I use will probably be first to update with new examples, however I hope to continue to add to the examples in these posts plus additional videos.
Click through to check out those tips.
Comments closedBrent Ozar shares some thoughts:
I’m not talking just about Microsoft SQL Server specifically here, nor T-SQL. Let’s zoom out a little and think bigger picture for a second: is the SQL language itself a problem?
Sometimes when I talk to client developers, they gripe about the antiquated language.
Brent goes on to list some common complaints with SQL in general and explains why there isn’t a better solution.
I should note that he also summarizes Feasel’s Law near the end of the post:
Comments closedRemember when NoSQL came out, and everybody was all “databases r doomd”? And remember what business users said when they wanted to run their reports? NoSQL persistence layers pretty quickly changed their tune, saying, “Oh, well, uh, we meant Not Only SQL, that’s what we meant,” as they struggled to quickly slap in SQL compatibility. Even MongoDB, king of NoSQL, implemented SQL support.
It’s as simple as this for each db you want a copy of. Just run it from the master db. This works if you want to make a copy on the same server. If you want to make a copy from another server, you would have to connect via PowerShell.
Click through for the T-SQL syntax. I’ve used this before on some reasonably large databases and it can take a while for that copy command to finish, but if you’re feeling impatient, you can check the status of the job using sys.dm_operation_status.
Comments closedJeff Iannucci talks xp_cmdshell:
That most likely means the hacker in the incident gained access to SQL Server, and then used xp_cmdshell to open a Windows command shell. With that shell opened, they could then pass DOS and/or PowerShell commands to collect information and download malware onto the server.
It sounds dangerous. It is. But whether or not xp_cmdshell is enabled is irrelevant.
Exactly. This is something Sean McCown has harped upon for years, and I’ve done my best to follow. You can do bad things with xp_cmdshell, but disabling it doesn’t actually help for reasons Jeff mentions. Instead, assuming you need xp_cmdshell for some work, don’t go beyond the pre-set limitations (where a user needs sysadmin or CONTROL SERVER) and it’s fine.
I showed the missing index suggestion (and let’s remember, they’re just suggestions) just for completion and to show I’m not hiding anything. Potentially, adding an index could speed up the query. However, that doesn’t affect what we’re going to talk about within this plan.
Logically, what’s happening here?
Click through for this overview, as well as a very helpful comment from Hugo Kornelis on what the Segment operator does.
Comments closedGilbert Quevauvilliers takes on a challenge:
I always enjoy a good challenge and I got it working! In this blog post I will use the same method where I am sending an email to scale up or scale down my Fabric Capacity.
The good news is that this works if the Capacity is paused or running (It might take a bit more time when running).
brb, sending Gilbert’s task an e-mail.
Actually, Gilbert does a good job in making sure that the sender has to be his e-mail address and not just some rando’s.
Comments closedAndy Brownsword troubleshoots a problem:
I recently ran into an issue when trying to call a function from an ADF pipeline. The function returned a generic Internal Server Error with no details exposed. Here we’ll look at how to dig into the logs to identify the true cause of the failure.
In this instance the function was performing PGP encryption but this could apply to any function. Let’s start with the problem.
Click through for the very generic error message and how you can get the real details.
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