Aveek Das
Using the PGAdmin Management Tool

Setting up a PostgreSQL Database on Mac

April 23, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to discuss different ways in which you can install and setup Postgres Database on a Mac. Postgres is an open-source relational database system that can be used to develop a wide variety of data-based applications. Postgres has been popular for analytical workloads as well since it has support for column-store index and in-memory storage as well. Postgres is also available on all the major public cloud services like AWS, Azure, and GCP. In order to use those services, it is recommended that you should also have them installed on your local machine before deploying your databases to the cloud directly.

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Daniel Calbimonte

SQL Definition

April 21, 2021 by

Introduction

In this article, we will provide a SQL definition and we will explain what it is, and we will also talk about the SQL extensions. We will also provide some examples of SQL Syntax.

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Nisarg Upadhyay
Task execution history

Automate consistency checks of SQL database using Windows Task Scheduler

April 20, 2021 by

The SQL database integrity check is one of the most crucial and important tasks of the database administrator. The database integrity task checks the structural integrity and allocation of all database objects and indexes. The integrity checks can be performed by using the DBCC CheckDB command. The CheckDB command is used to identify the corruption in the database. The command performs the following operations on the database.

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Aveek Das
CloudFormation Template on AWS Console

Spinning up MySQL instances on RDS using CloudFormation Templates

April 20, 2021 by

In this article, we are going to discuss how to set up a MySQL instance on AWS RDS using Cloud Formation templates. In my previous article, How to configure an Amazon RDS environment for MySQL, I have provided a detailed walkthrough of how to set up a MySQL instance on Amazon. You can use the AWS console to provide all the information required for setting up the instance and then use it. However, in this article, we will discuss an automated way of achieving the same functionalities using Cloud Formation templates.

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Nisarg Upadhyay
Job execution history

Automate SQL database backups using Windows Task Scheduler

April 15, 2021 by

In this article, we will learn how we can automate the backup of SQL database created in SQL Server Express edition. SQL Server Express edition is a lightweight database that has limited functionalities and resource allocation. The SQL Server Express edition does not support SQL Server Agent jobs, so it is tricky to automate various database administration tasks.

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Dinesh Asanka
Recommender System in Azure Machine Learning.

Designing Recommender Systems in Azure Machine Learning

April 13, 2021 by

In this article, we will be discussing how to design a Recommender System in Azure Machine learning which is the next article in the Azure Machine Learning series. During this lengthy article series on Azure Machine Learning, we have discussed multiple machine learning techniques such as Regression analysis, Classification Analysis, Clustering and Anomaly detection of Time Series. Further, we have discussed the basic cleaning techniques, feature selection techniques and Principal component analysis, Comparing Models and Cross-Validation and Hyper Tune parameters in this article series to date.

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Aveek Das
Overview of Apache Spark Architecture

Introduction to Apache Spark

April 12, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to discuss Apache Spark and how to create robust ETL pipelines for transforming big data. I will start from the very basics of Spark and then provide details on how to install Spark and start building the pipelines. In the later part of the article, I will also discuss how to leverage the Spark APIs to do transformations and obtain data into Spark data frames and SQL to continue with the data analysis.

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Rajendra Gupta

An overview of Power BI data models

April 12, 2021 by

Power BI is a business analytics solution provided by Microsoft. It helps you to create data visualizations from various data sources. We can import data from these data sources, create a data model, and prepares reports, visuals. These data sources are as below:

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Nisarg Upadhyay
drag-drop index maintenance task

Automate rebuilding SQL Database indexes using Maintenance Plans

April 9, 2021 by

Index maintenance is a vital part of a database administrator’s job. I have worked for few clients who often face performance issues in SQL Database and don’t have a dedicated DBA. I remember that one of our clients was facing performance issues. I logged in to their server and found that they did not set up any index maintenance jobs; therefore, many indexes were fragmented, causing the problem.

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